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BUFORD COAT OF ARMS

History and Genealogy

OF THE

BUFORD FAMILY

In America

With Records of a Number
of Allied Families

B;y

Captain Marcus Bainbridge Buford
San Francisco, Calif.

1903

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Revised and Enlarged Edition
By

Qeorge Washington Buford

and

Mildred Buford M inter
1924

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Mildred Buford Minter
LaBelle, Mo.

Financier and Sale of Books

MILDRED BUFORD MINTER

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Page

Pre-American History and Extracts from Wills and Deeds _ 17

CHAPTER II

1. Richard Beauford, Emigrant, 16 35, to Lancaster County, Virginia

2. John and Elizabeth Parrott Beauford of Christchurch Parish, Mid¬

dlesex County, Virginia

3. Thomas, Sr., and Mary Beauford of Christchurch Parish, Middle¬

sex County, Virginia _ 28

CHAPTER III

4. Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth Beauford of Christchurch Parish, Mid¬

dlesex County, Virginia

5. John and Judith Early Beauford of Blomfield Parish, Culpeper

County, Virginia _ 35

CHAPTER IV

6. Captain John Thomas and Ann Watts Buford of Bromfield Par¬

ish, Culpeper County, Virginia _ 39

CHAPTER V

6. Ann Buford and Henry Lewis of Spottsylvania County, Virginia-- 7 4

CHAPTER VI

Captain James and Elizabeth Bramblett Buford of Bedford County,

Virginia _ 77

CHAPTER VII
6. Elizabeth Buford Calloway

6. Captain William Early and Mary Welsh Buford of Bedford County,

Virginia _ 107

CHAPTER VIII

6. Colonel Abraham and Martha McDowell Buford _ 134

CHAPTER IX

6. Captain Henry Buford and Mildred Blackburn Buford _ 17 3

CHAPTER X

6. Mary Buford and William Chapman _ 29 3

CHAPTER XI

6. Frances Buford and Francis Kirtley _ 300

CHAPTER XII

6. Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Buford _ 306

CHAPTER XIII

5. Elizabeth Beauford and Jeremiah Early
5. Sarah Beauford and Mr. Wisdom
5. Mary Beauford and George Lee
5. Ann Beauford and Thomas Duckworth

350

CONTENTS — Continued

Page

CHAPTER XIV

4. Henry and Mary Osborne Beauford

5. William and Elizabeth Owen Beauford

5. Henry and Frances Beauford _ 3 55

CHAPTER XV

6. James and Priscilla Ragsdale Buford _ 37 9

CHAPTER XVI

6. LeRoy and Frances Ragsdale Buford _ 411

CHAPTER XVII

6. Josiab and Ann Ragsdale Buford

6. Letitia Buford and Joshua Ragsdale__ _ _ _ 427

CHAPTER XVIII
5. James, Sr., and Mary Beauford

5. Thomas Beauford _ 432

CHAPTER XIX

Bufords Not Placed _ 450

CHAPTER XX

Soldiers and Index _ 454

BUFORD

PORTRAITS AND PICTURES

Page

Buford Coat of Arms - 10

The United States Transport Buford _ 14

The Buford Monument at Gettysburg - 16

Senator Carter Martin Buford - 52

Henry Eidson, Jr - * 57

Pate Buford and Wife _ 58

James Buford and George Washington Buford - 6 6

Elizabeth Calloway Buford Parks _ _ _ 80

William Henry Buford and Wife _ _ _ 88

Jane Buford Dewees, Letitia Buford Vaughn, Margaret Buford

McWilliams _ 92

Dr. Oliver Henry Buford _ _ _ 104

D. A. R. Buford Chapter Home _ 106

Mary Catherine Bates Shackleford _ 114

Daniel Bates Walker and Wife _ 120

Frances Ann Baker Walker _ 126

Major General Irvin McDowell _ 142

Dr. Ephriam McDowell, Martha McDowell Buford _ 144

Charles Buford and Wife - - - 146

William McDowell Buford and Wife _ 152

Judge George Robertson and Wife _ _ 154

Captain Marcus Bainbridge Buford and Wife _ 15S

Dr. Frederick Winston Miller _ 160

Mary Buford Duke _ 166

Home of Captain Henry and Captain Paschal Buford _ 172

Attorney Thomas Lee Buford _ 188

Major Thomas Jerry Buford _ 202

Henry Buford - 206

John Alexander Buford and Wife _ 208

Linnie Love _ 210

Massanello Marion Buford and Family _ 212

Mildred Blackburn Buford Terrill, Julianna Elizabeth Buford Lewis. 216

Paschal Buford and Wife _ 222

Nancy Eidson Buford _ 228

Home of Judge Wellington Buford _ 230

Judge Wellington Buford and Family _ _ _ 2 32

Judge Wellington Buford and Wife _ 234

Judge George William Buford and Wife _ 236

Senator Simeon Robert Buford, Delaus Jesse Buford _ 2 38

William Buford and Wife _ 248

Captain Paschal Buford _ ^ _ 268

Judge Martin Parks Burks _ 27 4

Rowland Dabney Buford _ 278

Major General Napoleon Bonaparte Buford and Wife _ 310

Major General John Buford _ 314

General Abraham Buford _ 32 8

PORTRAITS — Continued

Page

William June Buford _ 356

William Pegram Buford and Wife _ 364

Francis Emmett Buford, Algernon Sidney Buford _ 36 6

Dr. W. L. Buford, Lieutenant Colonel John W. Buford _ 380

Attorney General Rivers Henderson Buford _ 39 6

Edward Buford 2d _ 40 6

Christopher Young Buford _ 420

World War Soldier Boys - 45 4

Corporal Abraham Buford Barnett, Lieutenant James Malcolm
Luck, William Buford Braudus Schnebly, Robert Edward
McGhee, Corporal Alvah Carlton Luck. Sergeant Hugh A.
Luck, Corporal Raymond R. Fizer.

Page _ , _ _ _ 455

George Phillip Luck, Abraham Buford Luck, Corporal Ray G.
Buford, William Edward Coffey, Sergeant Don LeRoy Buford,
Luther O. Sallee, Harry Buford Beagle, Corporal Nelson Mil-
ton Buford.

PREFACE

With profound reverence to the Supreme Ruler of the Uni¬
verse and grateful for His goodness, love and mercy, we present
this volume to the public.

In publishing the revisal of this work the authors duly ac¬
knowledge the valuable assistance received from the former edi¬
tion prepared and compiled by Capt. Marcus Bainbridge Buford.
We are also indebted to other relatives and friends for their
hearty co-operation in gathering valuable material.

An honest endeavor has been made to be conservative, ac¬
curate, clear and impartial.

We might explain here that those whose pictures appear that;
were not in the first edition, have paid extra for the privilege.

/ •

GEORGE W. BUFORD, Bismarck, Mo.

MILDRED BUFORD MINTER, LaBelle, Mo.

REQUEST

We have tried hard to have the records correct, but know
there will be many mistakes, so will be glad to receive corrections,
also records of any families we have not reached, that their
records may be ready for the next edition.

MILDRED BUFORD MINTER, LaBelle, Mo.

TRADITION

There is a FISH STORY that has passed down from one
generation to another, that belongs to the BUFORD FAMILY,
as well as any other who might have been emigrants on the ship
ELIZABETH, to America in 1635.

The story, The ship on way over struck a snag, went aleak
so badly that all on board took their turn at bailing water, both
day and night, to keep the ship from sinking. Finally the water
ceased to fill the ship, to the delight of all. When they reached
land, on investigation to ascertain the cause, it was found that the
water pouring through the hole in the hull of the ship, had caused
a suction that caught a big fish, and the pressure was so great it
was held fast against the side of the ship, thus stopping the leak -
age, and allowing the ship to land in safety.

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BUFORD

BUFORD COAT OF ARMS

They had several of these in use and they differ materially
in some respects, indicating their family line, but in common they
present the same general features. (They were given only by
Kings, for valor or military achievements.

Arms of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, grandson of John
of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, from his Garter plate in St. George’s
Chapel at Windsor, first half of the fifteenth century; the then
Royal Arms of England (i. e. quarterly, land 4, France; 2 and 3
England) within a border compony argent and azure. The mant¬
ling, which has scalloped edge, is of gules and or. The crest is —
ona chapeau gules, turned up ermine; a lion of England statant
guardant and crowned or ; gorged with collar compony as in the
Arms.

SUPPORTER : Dexter and eagle crowned, and with wings
inverted or; sinister and antelope argent armed and crined or
and bazant.

As badge: On either side of Coat of Arms is the badge
of an ostrich feather, argant, the quill compony argent and azure.

This is taken from Planch’s “Pursuivant Arms,” London,
1873, but in that book the background of the livery colors, as
in the Garter Plate, is fully reproduced (description on page 454,
“Art of Heraldry”) . On page 136, the panther is given by Segur,
Garter King of Arms, 1603-1633, as one of the badges of King
Henry VI, where it is silver spotted of various colors, and with
flames issuing from its mouth and ears.

No doubt this Royal badge is the origin of the supporter of
the Duke of Beaufort.

FROM BOOK OF CRESTS.

Beaufort, Duke of (Somerset) a portcullis or, nailed az, with
chains pendant thereto, also or, MOTTO — MUTARE VEL TIM-
ERE SPERNO (I scorn to change or fear.) Beaufort, Leisester

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

Paul, Esquire, of the Cottage, Strathfield, Turgis Winokfield,
Hants; a female figure habited by the second encircled round the
waist with a belt or, holding in her dexter hand a mirrow ppr.,
in her left hand a book, between two wings erect arg. MOTTO :
Deus meus turris fortis.

DEFINITIONS: The Lion represents strength and bold¬
ness : LILIES — purity.

Argent — Silver, usually represented and considered as
white; when engraved the surface is left plain.

Azure — Blue, represented when engraved by parallel
horizontal lines.

Gules — Red, represented when engraved by perpen¬
dicular lines.

Or — Gold, frequently represented by yellow; when en¬
graved by small points or dots spread over the field
or bearing.

Per pale — Divided into two equal parts of different
colors by a perpendicular line.

Compony — Composed of one row of rectangular pieces
alternately of different tinctures; if there be two
rows it is termed compony-counter-compony.

Portcullis — For the defense of the gateway of a city,
castle or other fortress. For protection against
enemies.

Stantant — Standing.

Chapeau — Cap.

The Arms of the legitimated Beauforts are now borne by the
Somersets, Dukes of Beaufort, who descended from Charles
Somerset, who was created Earl of Worcester, a natural son of
Henry Beaufort, third Duke of Somerset.

CHARLES SOMERSET, first Earl of Worchester, K. C. ; il-
legimate son of Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset ; was appoint¬
ed Captain of Yeoman of the Guard, 1486; made K. C. 1496; and
Knight Banneret, 1497. He married Elizabeth, June 3, 1472.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

JOHN DE BEAUFORT, eldest natuial son of John of Gaunt
and Katherine Swinford ; bore per pale argent and azure (the well
known Lancastrain colors) on a broad bend the Arms of Lan¬
caster, England — a label of France. This John (created Earl
and Marquis of Somerset) and other children of John, Duke of
Lancaster, by Katherine Swinford, were legitimated by Act of
Parliament (20 Richard II) and then substituted for the above for
the Royal Arms within a bordure compony of the Lancastrain
colors.

His brother, Cardinal Beaufort, used the same with a cres¬
cent argent in the center point for difference ; the other brother,
Thomas, Duke of Exeter, made his bordure compony of ermine
(instead of argent) and azure.

After 1417 he changed the bordure to argent and azure, on
each pane of the letter a fleur-de-lis or.

Bufords have been in possession of the Coat of Arms from
the tenth* century, but it is not known for the performance of
what particular achievement it was given.

UNITED STATES TRANSPORT BUFORD.

The Buford ship is one of the best known of Uncle Sam’s
carriers. She is the vessel that carried Emma Golden and Alex¬
ander Berkman, with other undesirables, to Russia when they
were deported,, and she has been for several years one of the most
prominent of the government ships doing official business. The
latest feat that brought Capt. L. R. N. Kerr and his big vessel
into the limelight was in rescuing the crew and passengers from
the burning Japanese steamer Tokuyo Maru off the Oregon coast
while enroute to Tacoma, Washington.

Capt. Kerr came to Tacoma to carry the 55th Artillery from
Camp Lewis to the Hawaiian Islands, during the World War.

The Japanese vessel was burning off the coast of Oregon,
and the Buford was the first ship to answer the SOS call from

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

. TRANSPORT BUFORD

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

the doomed freighter, and she stood by until all lives had been
saved.

Capacity of U. S. T. BUFORD: Passengers, first class, 70;
second class, 44; troops, 978. The greater part of service on the
Pacific Coast. Home port, San Francisco, Calif.

THE U. S. S. BEAUFORT.

The Beaufort was formerly the German steamship Rudolph
Blumberg and was seized by the Collector of the Port of New Or¬
leans, La., April 6, 1917, for the purpose of guarding the ship and
preventing its destruction by her officers and crew.

The vessel was later taken over by the United States, under
the Joint Resolution, No. 42, of the 65th Congress, approved May
12, 1917, and in Executive Order, No. 2625, dated May 22, 1917,
the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to transfer the ves¬
sel to the Navy for use as a collier and cargo vessel. On June 9,
1917, the name of the vessel was changed from Rudolph Blum¬
berg to U S. S. BEAUFORT. It is still in active service. Home
port, New York Harbor.

If aspiration high reach not beyond the sky,

Our striving and longing, at evening and dawning.
Our Faith and bright Hopes all are risen;

Like a voyager afar, without compass or star,

On a rock-beaten coast we are driven.

ELIZABETH KATE BUFORD.

HISTORY

AND

GENEALOGY

THE BUFORD MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG

(The gun in the left foreground is the one from which the first

shot of the battle was fired.)

CHAPTER I.

PRE-AMERICAN HISTORY AND EXTRACTS FROM WILLS

AND DEEDS

BEAUFORT, BEAUFORD, BUFFORD AND BUFORD

The name Beaufort, or as it came to America, Beauford,
is French, and as a family name extremely rare, being essen¬
tially a place name, meaning “beautiful fort or castle/’ It grew
into a family name during the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries,
from the ownership of such places, the lords or masters being
spoken of as “de Beaufort,” of, or belonging to, the beautiful
castle.

The given names of both the English and American families,
such as John, Thomas, William, Richard and Robert, are Nor¬
man, and came to England with the Northmen.

By referring to the extracts given below from old English
wills and deeds, it will be seen that the progenitors of the
Bufords in America were in England long before John of Gaunt
adopted the name Beaufort for his children, or the French
Huguenots had emigrated.

John of Gaunt came into possession of the castle of Beaufort,
in the Province of Anjou, in France, at the close of the Thirteenth
century, and from it named his children by Catherine Swinford
“Beaufort,” with the title of Duke of Somerset. This family be¬
came extinct with the John who was exiled to France and killed
in the Battle of Tewksburg, in 1470. An illegitimate branch of
this family was given the name of “Somerset,” and in 1682 the
title Duke of Beaufort.

There has been, from the earliest day, a tradition in the
family in America that they were descendants of John of Gaunt;
but this could be only through the female side of the house, and
they could then have no legitimate claim to the name of Beau¬
fort, and could come by it only by adoption.

[17]

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

Beaufort City and County, South Carolina, were evidently
so-called in honor of the Duke of that name, one of the “Lords
Proprietors,” whose descendants still own vast estates in Som¬
erset and Wales, though mortgaged and impoverished of later
generations to the extent that the present incumbent of the title
recently felt compelled to put up huge tracts, forests and ruined
castles for sale at public auction in order to secure for himself a
regular meal ticket. The small town, Beaufort, in Monmouth¬
shire, England, is located in the heart of the ducal ancestral
domain, and Raglan and Chepstow castles were two of the mag¬
nificent ruins auctioned off and falling to bids of Yankee million¬
aires a few years since.

The French Beauforts originated with the children of Henry
IV and Gabrielle d’Estrees, who became Duchesse de Beaufort,
from an estate of the name in Champagne, France, which be¬
longed to her family in 1590 to 1600 — too late for the English
Buffords to be descended from them. Some members of this
family, French Huguenots, emigrated to England after the edict
of Nantes, and their descendants are still found in that country
and this. They are “Beauforts,” having never changed the spell¬
ing of their name.

The first English Beauforts came over with William the
Conqueror, and got their name, as did the Dukes of Beaufort, in
Belgium, in the Tenth century, from the Castle of Beaufort, in
Namur, Belgium.

If they brought any titles with them, none have survived
in England, and they became knights, dignitaries of the church,
merchants, husbandmen, yeomen, and men of position in every
walk of life.

It is not possible, with the data now in possession of the
writer, to connect the American family immediately with the
English Buffords. While this is most unsatisfactory, there is
no doubt that they are one and the same, and the search for
documentary proof which is still going on will probably estab-

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

lish the fact and show which Richard or John was the emigrant
to this country and the progenitor of the family in America.

Many members of our family in the United States still spell
the name Beauford, having never allowed the change to Buford,
which gradually came to be the accepted form. It is readily
seen how the change to Bufford would come about in England,
when one remembers that few people in the Tenth century, the
Eleventh, and even down to the Thirteenth, could read or write,
and that literary attainments were confined chiefly to the
clergy, lawyers, clerks, etc. Of course, it was impossible to con¬
vey to a clerk any way of spelling a name other than phonetically,
and he wrote what seemed to him to be be the correct spelling.
There are few of the old wills and deeds examined which do not
contain several ways of spelling the name of the same person,
and often it is only by close study and comparison that the web
is untangled.

The BEAUFORTS have been prominent in the history of
England since the early part of the Eleventh century. They
entered with William the Conqueror. Here we take a few ex¬
tracts from People’s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge:
1370-1447.

HENRY BEAUFORT, born 1370, died at Winchester,
1447. Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester; was half-brother
to King Henry IV. He was educated in England and Germany.
In 1404 he became Bishop of Winchester. He was present at
the Council of Constance, and voted for the election of Pope
Martin V., by whom he was subsequently made Cardinal. In
1431, Beaufort conducted the young King, Henry VI, to France
to be crowned in Paris as King of France and England. Here
he also endeavored, but vainly, to reconcile the Duke of Bedford,
Regent of France, with the offended Duke of Burgundy. His
memory is stained by his suspected participation in the murder
of the Earl of Gloucester and of the Maid of Orleans, Joan
d’Arc.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

1441—1509.

BEAUFORT, MARGARET, Countess of Richmond and
of Derby, daughter of Duke of Somerset, and wife of the Earl
of Richmond, who was a half-brother to Henry VL, and mother
of Henry VII. Born, 1441 ; died, 1509.

1662.

BEAUFORT, Due de (Francois de Vendome), leader
of malcontents in the war of the Fronde. Commander of the
French fleet 1662; killed at Candia, 1669.

1824.

BEAUFORT, H. C. F. S., 8th Duke of; an English
soldier ; born in 1824 ; was aide-de-camp to Wellington, Hardinge.
and the Duke of Cambridge.

KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

THE NORMANS

1066.

William the Conqueror; crowned 25 December; died at
Rouen, 9 September, 1087.

1087.

William II., Rufus; reign began 26 September; killed by
an arrow 2 August, 1100.

1100.

Henry II., Beauclere, his brother; reign began 5 August;
died of a surfeit, 1 December, 1135.

1135.

Stephen, Earl of Blois, nephew of Henry; reign 26 De¬
cember; died 25 October, 1154.

THE PLANTAGENETS

1154.

Henry II., Plantagenet, grandson of Henry I. and son of
Maud; reign began 19 December; died 6 July, 1189.

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BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

1189.

Richard I. Coeur de Lion; his son; reign began 3 Septem¬
ber; died of a wound, 6 ApriJ, 1199.

1199.

John, the brother of Richard; reign began 27 May;- died
19 October, 1216.

1216.

Henry III., son of John; reign began 28 October; died 16
November, 1272.

1272.

Edward I., son of Henry, surname Longshanks; reign
began 20 November; died 7 July, 1307.

1307.

Edward II., son of Edward I.; reign began 8 July; de¬
throned 20 January, 1327 ; murdered at Berkeley Castle, 21
September following.

1327.

Edward III., his son; reign began 25 January; died 21
June, 1377.

1377.

Richard II., son of Edward the Black Prince, and grand¬
son of Edward III.; reign began 22 June; dethroned 29 Sep¬
tember, 1399; said to have been murdered at Pomfret Castle,
10 February, 1400.

HOUSE OF LANCASTER

1399.

Henry IV., cousin of Richard II.; reign began 30 Septem¬
ber; died 20 March, 1413.

1413.

Henry V., his son; reign began 21 March; died 31 August.
1422.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

1422.

Henry VI., his son ; reign began 1 September ; deposed 4
March, 1461 ; said to have been murdered by Richard, duke of
Gloucester, in the Tower, 20 June, 1471.

HOUSE OF YORK

1461.

Edward IV., died 9 April, 1483.

1483.

Edward V., his son; deposed 25 June, 1483, and said to
have been murdered in the Tower; reigned two months and
thirteen days. -
1483.

Richard III., brother of Edward IV. ; began to reign 26
June; slain at Bosworth, 22 August, 1485.

1485.

HOUSE OF TUDOR

Henry VII., son of Edmond Tudor, earl of Richmond, and
Margaret, daughter of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset, legit¬
imated descendant of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; began
reign 22 August; died 21 April, 1509.

1509.

Henry VIII. * his son, began to reign 22 April; died 28
January, 1547.

1547.

Edward VI., son of Henry VIII. (by Jane Seymour), died
6 July, 1553.

1553.

Jane, daughter of the duke of Suffolk, and wife of Lord
Guilford Dudley; proclaimed queen on the death of Edward;
ten days afterward returned to private life; was tried 13 No¬
vember, 1553; beheaded 12 February, 1554, when but 17 years
of age.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

1553.

Mary, daughter of Henry, by Catherine of Aragon; mar¬
ried Phillip of Spain, 25 July, 1554; died 17 November, 1558.

1558.

Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, by Anne Boleyn, died 24
March, 1603.

Notes made from wills and other documents at Somerset
House and various places in England of Bufford, Baford and
Beauford.

1370.

Thomas Bufford, 1370-75. Children — Afrn, wife of John
Young and William, born about 1410, who was a citizen and
mercer in London, wife Elizabeth, — lived in St. Mary's Parish,
near where the Bank of England now stands, and was a con¬
siderable possessor of lands at Merton, Surrey, now included
in London. Children — Richard, died 1490; Rose, who married
Whaplode; Elizabeth, Agnes, Lettys, Robert and Harry; two last
not mentioned in mother’s will. William and his wife both died
in 1488. William had a brother named William, not an uncom¬
mon thing in those days.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

1517.

In Northiam Church in Sussex there is an epitaph that ha~
probably never before been in print, as follows: “Of yo>
charite pray for the Soule of Syr Robert Beauford sumtyn e
person of this Church of Northia the which deceased the xxviji
day of April in the yere of the lord MVXVII on whose soul
Thu have mercy, amen.”

1530.

George Bayford, 1530-40, of Great Haddam, Hertfordshire.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

Daughter Margaret, 1577 ; married, 1597, William Gladwyn, ot
Chigwell, Essex.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury .

1555.

Richard Bufforde,. Colforde Newland, County Gloucester,
April 16, 1555.

EXTRACTS FROM WILLS AND DEEDS

16, 1555. Mentions his wife, Margaret; sons, Christopher,
Henry, Anthony. Consistory of Gloucester, file for 1555.

1573.

Christopher Bufforde was of Whittle, in Essex in 1573.
Married Elizabeth Boyes, of Halstead, Essex.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

1578.

Anna Bufford, widow, Colford, 18 July, 1578. Mentions
daughters, Joan, Eleanor and Elizabeth, son and heir, Robert
Morgan, and Anna, his wife.

Consistory of Gloucester , file for 1578.

1584.

August 23, 1584, administration of Ellen Baford (de¬
ceased). All Hallows, Staynong, to her husband, John Baford.

Commissary of London , Act Book 1582-1593. Folio 50

1626.

William Bufford of Riding Court, Hornchurch, County of
Essex. Will dated May 5, 1626. Wife’s name Mary; had son,
William, daughter, Elizabeth, sister, Elizabeth, who married
William Gladwin (Gladwyn?) of Dunton; brothers, John (of
Dunton), and Richard; brother-in-law, James Mansfield. Mary
Bufford’s will was probated June 4, 1627.

Archdeaconry of Essex filed wills , file for 1626-27,
No. 42.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

1631.

Elizabeth Bufford, widow, Ingrave, Essex. Will dated
October 16, 1631. Buried in Layndon Church, near her hus¬
band. Children — Henry, John, Rowland, James and Elizabeth.
Henry had four children; John had four; Elizabeth married' Nor¬
ton and had two children, John and Elizabeth Norton; James
had two children, William and Elizabeth Bufford; son-ip-lav/,
Richard Bufford, had two daughters.

Consistory of London , Register “Allen,” folio 100.

1636.

Mary Bufford, of Hurslay, County Southton. Indenture
May 31, 1636. 12. Charles I, Close Roll, part 4 (3078), No. 24.

1638.

Philip Bafford and wife Mary, of St. Mary Malfellonals,
Whitechapel, February 5, 1638.

1638.

1 September, 1638.

John Bafford (Hereford in Act book). Mentions brother,
Styles, minister of Pomfet, in Yorkshire; sisters, Margaret,
Elizabeth, and Prudence. John Bafford evidently died in Italy,
as his will is witnessed by Basil, Lord Fielding, H. M.’s ambas¬
sador to Italy, and William Pettie. He left legacies to his ser¬
vant and others who cared for him during his illness.

Will was proved December 1, 1638, by his widow and exe¬
cutrix, Fortune Bafford.

1639.

John Bufford of Dunton, Essex, October 20, 1639. Men¬
tions sons, John and Rowland; daughters, Elizabeth, Ann, and
Alice; brother, Rowland Bufford, who is appointed guardian
during minority of his sons, etc.

Archdeaconry of Essex, Register “ Whitehead ,” 1638-
1653, folio 71.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

1641.

William Bufford, of Ruarden, diocese of Gloucester, 22
March, 1641. Mentions his wife, Ann, who was the daughter
of John Nelmes; his sons, John and William; his brother, John
Bufford; his nephews, John Bufford and Henrie Catchmie —
son of his sister — and his nieces, Joan Bufford and Eleanor
Catchmin.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury , “ Campbell ” 85.

1648.

John Bufford, of Landogo, County Monmouth, 23 Decem¬
ber, 1648.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury , “Fairfax,” 129.

1654.

William Bafford, of Chilloworth, South Hants; will Febru¬
ary 10, 1654.

1654.

Christopher Bauford, of Bisley, County Surrey ; will March
11, 1654; wife, Mary. Children — Christopher, John and Ann,
who married John Berryman.

Prerogative Court of Canterbury , Register “Aylett,”
folio 428.

In Essex and Herts, Prerogative Court of Canter¬
bury.. —

1660- 61. Susanna Bufford.

1661- 63. Thomas Bayford, Farnham.

1663-66. George Bufford, Colchester.

Edward Bayford, Little Hadley.

John Bayford, Bishop Storford.

William Bayford, Bishop Storford.

1669-97. Rowland Bufford, Ingrave.

Daniel Byford, Southminster.

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1667-80. Rebecca Bainford (Baenford?), Leigh, Essex.

1684-99. Edward Bayford Stanstead, Montfichal.

Ralph Beaufort, a priest of St. Olaves, Silver
Street, London, died 1650.

1678-79. John Bufford of Dunton, Essex, 22 January,
1678-9. Mentions his wife, Margaret, his sons, John, William.
Francis and Richard.

Archdeaconry of Essex, register “Hills” (1675-1680),
folio 265.

CHAPTER II

1. RICHARD BEAUFORD, EMIGRANT, 1685. TO LANCAS¬

TER COUNTY, VIRGINIA

2. JOHN AND ELIZABETH PARROTT BEAUFORD, OF

CHRISTCHURCH PARISH, MIDDLESEX
COUNTY, VIRGINIA

8. THOMAS, SR., AND MARY BEAUFORD

We are about to enter upon the records of a most remark¬
able people of unparalleled history. Perhaps there is none greater
or more to be honored than the Buford's, who ever crossed
the ocean and came to America. Their descendants will prob¬
ably now exceed 5,000 in numbers ; scattered in every state and
territory of the United States, from Maine to California, from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and to the far Northwest
Alaska, we find them engaged in almost every calling and pur¬
suit of life common to mankind, such as farmers, lawyers, doc¬
tors, merchants, preachers, teachers, politicians, musicians,
painters, etc., as well as filling high positions of honor and pub¬
lic trust and usefulness under the government, with credit and
satisfaction to all concerned. As generals and soldiers on the
battle field, they have not been questioned as to their loyalty and
have proved themselves worthy and capable of carrying out
their designs in instances of great enterprises. In this respect
few can be found to be their equals. The truth of this fact
will be later fully demonstrated in this book. A mighty people
of powerful influence, characterized by great principles of hon¬
esty, integrity, industry, self-reliance, skill, perseverance, per¬
sistence, trustworthyness and shrewdness; in a very great
degree devoid of the principles of selfishness, and especially
noted for their generosity. Summing up the whole matter, only
one more thought is necessary by adding, the saying of which
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is often repeated by other people, “Whatever a Buford under¬
takes to do he never fails to accomplish.”

In the Navy of the United States there is a gigantic trans¬
port vessel called “Buford” in honor of the name. There is
also, The U. S. S. BEAUFORT, a vessel used as a collier.

The name has further been honored in eleven states of this
great Union by the naming of postoffices, those in Missouri,
North and South Carolina retaining the old French form,
“BEAUFORT,” while those in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee,
Ohio, Arkansas, North Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming use the
simple form “BUFORD.” There is also a county each in North
Carolina and South Carolina, and an island which bears the
name Beaufort.

It will be seen from the preceding chapter that the Buford
family originated in France, belonging to the French Huguenots,
and on account of their religious belief, left France and found
refuge in England.

The first ancestor of this distinguished family to come to
America was probably Richard Beauford. “He was examined by
a minister of the Church of England, as to his loyalty to the
King, took the prescribed oath of allegiance, etc., age eighteen,”
“Hotten’s List;” emigrated on the ship Elizabeth, August 1,
1635, from Gravesend, England, being a young man eighteen
years of age; therefore, born in the year 1617 or 18. Little
or no record is left to tell the thrilling incidents of this great
voyage, and the reader is left to imagine what history fails to
record. In the Deed Book of Lancaster County, Virginia, at
Lancaster Court House, under date of April 15, 1656, “John
Vause assigned Richard Beauford three hundred acres of land
lying on the south side of the Rappahannock River, up in the
freshes, bounding on the land of Thomas Hawkins. It is quite
probable that he married a daughter of John Vause and drifted
with him and his family into Lancaster County, Virginia.

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After Richard came to America the colony had, by census
of 1634, four thousand nine hundred and fourteen inhabitants
and was divided into eight littoral shires.

The name Lancaster first appears in the list of counties
represented in the House of Burgesses, April, 1652. No act
or order for. the formation of the county appears to be extant.
“By the Court held ye 7th of August, 1645, for ye countye of
Lancaster, it was divided into two parishes, the lower includ¬
ing the present counties of Lancaster and Middlesex, and the
upper the present counties of Essex and Richmond, and the ter¬
ritory extending indefinitely to the westward, on both sides of
the Rappahannock River.”

Had he married as early as 1640, he could have had a son
old enough to be married in 1662. Therefore, he is supposed
to be the progenitor of the Beaufords, Beauforts, Bluefords, Blu-
fords, Buefords and Bufords, in America, the descent traced
through John Beauford, of Christchurch Parish, Middlesex
County, Virginia. That Richard’s family records are not given
is accounted for by the fact that the register of Christchurch
Parish was not begun until 1653. The name is found spelled all
these ways. While much of the confusion of this lawless spell¬
ing is due to the clerks of the counties and of the parishes, the
individuals themselves frequently spelled their names any of
these ways, indifferently ; in fact, often in several different ways
in the same document. Given names were either scarce or clung
to with great persistency, and it has been found almost impos¬
sible in this genealogy to identify the different Johns, Thomases,
Jameses and Williams, except by their immediate families.
Although at first there were no middle names, in deeds and
other legal documents where it was necessary for both husband
and wife to sign, the initials of both their given names were
frequently signed before their surnames. This was also the
custom in marking silver, linen and other household goods.

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The name Buford primarily, as we have already before indi¬
cated, was written in various ways and perhaps uttered a little
differently when spoken by some, and in the course of over a
hundred years automatically and gradually was reduced to a
simpler and easier spelling, until by general consent and agree¬
ment, just before the Revolutionary War, it assumed its mod¬
ern form, which has been considered proper. Although a very
similar process had taken place in England before there had
been any emigrants of the name to America, Richard and his
descendants did not recognize the change, if they knew of it

The Burfords, another great people, came to Virginia in an
early day, having a history that rivals the Buford’s. They are
an intermixture of English, Scotch and Welsh, and must not
be confounded with the Bufords, who are purely French. The
writer has examined their history and cannot find any connec¬
tion with the above people, and it is useless to try to identify
Buford with Burford.

In the register of Christchurch, Middlesex County, 1653-
1812, among the first entries, in fact, the sixth, is the marriage
of John Blueford (Beauford) and Elizabeth Parrott, April 11,
1662. He was then probably twenty years of age and, there¬
fore, born in 1642. It is also probable that he was a son of
Richard, and not born in Middlesex County, where Richard is
found in 1656, but came there with his father, for in the register
is found an entry to the effect that Richard Parrott, Jr., who
was born 24th of February, 1620, was the first male child that
was born in the county, of English parents.

In a deed in the land office, Richmond, Virginia, dated
March 17, 1663, Sir William Berkeley, knight, governor of Vir¬
ginia, grants to John Beauford and Francis Broughton three
hundred (300) acres of land lying in the County of Lancaster
(now Middlesex) upon the south side of the Rappahannock
River adjoining the land of Richard Lewis, said land being due

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John Beauford and Frances Broughton by and for the trans¬
portation of six persons, etc.

Sir William Burkley had obtained government land grants,
in which was included Lancaster County, and to encourage set
tlement he issued grants of fifty acres for each person trans¬
ported to the colony. Among those brought over were members
of families already in the colony, servants and slaves, both white
and black. To obtain a grant it was simply necessary to pay
the passage money of the person transported.

Middlesex County, owing to its accessibility both for exports
and imports, became the fountain-head of the most aristocratic
colonists and the source from which sprang many of Virginia’s
most prominent families. Hence were the Berkeleys, Skipwiths,
Brandons, Wormsleys, Corbins, Carters, Conways, Balls, Wash¬
ingtons, Lewises, and hundreds of others. Now there is not
only no vestige of these names left there, but no trace of their
homes. The old church has been in ruins many years. Trees
have grown up inside its walls, and the old tombs surrounding
it have been allowed to decay and disappear.

2. JOHN BEAUFORD, of Christchurch Parish, Lancaster
County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Parrat, April 11, 1662.
Children — Thomas, born 1663; Ambrose, born 1665; Susannah,
born 1667 ; Elizabeth, 1669.

John Beauford died April 18, 1722.

3. THOMAS, SR., son of John and Elizabeth Parrat Beau¬
ford, born in Lancaster County, 1663. Married Mary - .

Children — Thomas, Jr., born 1682, baptized May 21, 1682:
Henry, born 1684, baptized March 15, 1684; Mary, March 18,
1688.

Thomas Beauford died December 9, 1716.

Mary Beauford died December 29, 1720.

3. AMBROSE, son of John and Elizabeth Parrat Beau¬
ford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, 1665. Married Eliza-

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beth - . Daughter — Elizabeth, who was baptized Septem¬

ber 10, 1693.

3. SUSANNAH, daughter of John and Elizabeth Parrat
Beau-ford, born in Lancaster County, Va., 1667 ; married
Thomas Guy, October 14, 1689.

3. ELIZABETH, daughter of John and Elizabeth Par-
rat Beauford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, 1669; mar¬
ried William Priest. Daughter — Katherine, born September 20,
1693; married Matthew Cook September 12, 1708.

PARROTT

The name is found spelled Perrott, Parat, Parett and Parrott,
and is traced from England to Barbadoes and to Virginia.

Richard Perrott was one of the first settlers of Lancaster
County. His wife’s name was Margaret, and there has been found,
in the colony, no further record of her. They were probably mar¬
ried in England or in Barbadoes, where their first child, Elizabeth,
was born. They were in Lancaster County as early as 1649. In
the register of Christchurch, Middlesex Parish, is the following
memorandum: “Richard, sone of Mr. Richard Perrott, Sr., was
borne the 24th of February, 1650, being the first man child that
was begott and borne in Rappahannock River, of English parents.”

1. RICHARD, SR., was a vestryman of Christchurch, a com¬
missioner of Lancaster County in 1656, elected High Sheriff, June
5, 1657, and Senior Justice of Middlesex County Court, 1673, until
his death. Frequent mention is made of him in Virginia history,
and Bishop Meade, in his “Old Families and Churches,” states that
he was appealed to while in England, on one of his visits, to bring
out a minister for the church.

The register also contains the following entry: “Whereas
Mr. Richard Perrott hath built a Pew in the Chancell on the further
side opposite the Pulpitt and a stable also, which Pew and Stable
is for the use of Henry Corbin, Esq., properly belonging to him and
those that shall have andl enjoy the house and land whereon he
hath now built on and forever, September 29, 1669.”

RICHARD, SR., died November 11, 1686. In his will he men¬
tions his wife, Margaret, and his grandsons, Henry and Richard,
sons of Richard, Jr. His plantations were in Middlesex County.
One of them, of one thousand acres, was on the north side of the
Pyankatank River. His wife, Margaret, died January 30, 1687.
Children — Elizabeth, 1645; Richard, Jr., February 24, 1650.

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2. ELIZABETH married, April 11, 1662, John Bleuford.

2. RICHARD, JR., married, February 11, 1672, Mrs. Sarah
Curtis Halfhide. “She was born in Ware Parish, Gloster County,
on a Sunday about 2 o’clock, afternoon, the 16th of August, 1657,
being the daughter of Major Thomas Curtis, by his wife Averilla.
She was, when married to Richard, the widow of William Halfhide.
“The names of what children (and the times when) have been
borne to aforesaid Mr. Richard and Sarah Perrott of Middlesex
County — Henry, January 25, 1675; Frank, daughter, August 28,
1677; Sarah, September 21, 1679; Richard 3d, October 5, 1681;
Averilla (also spellel Efflorilla), August 3, 1683; Robert, October
25, 1685; Curtis, August 19, 1688, and Mary, January 19, 1690.

Sarah (Curtis) Perrott died 1693-4.

3. RICHARD 3d, son of Richard, Jr., and Sarah (Curtis)

Perrott, married, 1705, Sara - . Children — Henry, born Feb¬

ruary 25, 1706; Richard 4th, 1708; William, December 27, 1712.

Richard 3d died January 11, 1734.

3. ROBERT, SR., son of Richard, Jr., and Sarah (Curtis)
Perrott, married, March 25, 1706, Catherine Daniel. Children —
Robert, Jr., April 27, 1707; Sarah, February 6, 1708, died March 13,
1801; William, May 20, 1712; Betty, December 3, 1714; John, No¬
vember 12, 1720; James, November 11, 1722.

Robert, Sr., died August 9, 1723, and his wife married, July 17,
1728, John Williams.

4. ROBERT, JR., son of Robert, Sr., and Sara Parrott, mar¬
ried Sarah - . Children — James, born January 25, 1732;

Ludowick, January 26, 1734; Sarah, March 25, 1737.

Robert, Jr., died December 13, 1737.

3. AVERILLA, daughter of Richard, Jr., and Sarah Curtis
Perrott, married Joseph Hardee. Children — Arvilla, baptized April
22, 1705, died February 7, 1720; Joannah, baptized August 3, 1707;
Joseph, Jr., baptized October 23, 1709, died December 27, 1734; Mary,
born May 18, 1711; Charles, July 19, 1715; Perrott, April 4, 1718;
Sarah, October 19, 1720.

Joseph Hardee died March 28, 1729.

3. CLTRTIS, son of Richard, Jr., and Sarah Curtis Perrott,
married September 3, 1714, Anne Daniel. Children — Clara, born
April 21, 1716; Curtis, Jr., January 30, 1718; Arvilla, June 16, 1721;
Anne, February 20, 1723, died November 16, 1739; Agatha, May 12,
1727; Charles, June 22, 1729; Daniel, August 10, 1732; Francis,
December 6, 1734.

3. MARY, daughter of Richard, Jr., and Sarah Curtis Perrott,
married September 16, 1708, Hobbs Weekes. Children — Elizabeth,
baptized October 3, 1709; Millicent, born May 2, 1713; Thomas,
June 11, 1715; Abraham, September 22, 1717.

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CHAPTER III

4. THOMAS, JR., AND ELIZABETH BEAUFORD, OF

CHRISTCHURCH PARISH, MIDDLESEX
COUNTY, VIRGINIA

5. JOHN AND JUDITH EARLY BEAUFORD, OF BLOM-

FIELD PARISH, CULPEPPER COUNTY,

VIRGINIA

4. THOMAS, JR., son of Thomas and Mary Beauford, of

the County of Middlesex, born 1682, married Elizabeth - .

Children — Agatha, born August 13, 1705; John, born 1707, bap¬
tized September 21, 1707; Sarah, 1712, baptized April 6, 1712;
Mary, August 20, 1716; Anne, July 4, 1718.

Thomas, Jr., died 1761. His will is dated October 24, 1751,
and was probated July 7, 1761. He lends his wife, Elizabeth,
all his estate, both real and personal, during her lifetime, which
is bequeathed after her death to his son John. He mentions
his daughter, Agatha Lee, Sarah Wisdom, Mary Lee, and Eliza¬
beth Early, and his grandchildren, John, Anne, James, Eliza¬
beth, and William Beauford, who were the children of John
and Judith (see below). The grandson John, mentioned here,
was changed to John Thomas.

5. AGATHA, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth
Beauford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, August 13, 1705,
married, July 16, 1724, George Twyman. Children — Eliza¬
beth, born June 28, and baptized July 25, 1725, died August 29,
1727 ; William, May 27, 1727; Catherine, June 13, 1729; George,
March 19, 1731. Agatha’s husband, George Twyman, must
have died soon after this, as Agatha married John Warwick,
of Lancaster County, March 8, 1735. They had a son, Abra¬
ham, born May 19, 1738, and a daughter, Elizabeth, August 6,
1740.

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John Warwick, who was the son of Thomas and Mary War¬
wick, was born March 14, 1711, and died April 4, 1744. In her
father's will, made in 1751, Agatha is called Agatha Lee, hence
must have married again after the death of John Warwick, in
1744.

In Middlesex County, Christchurch Parish, there was, also,
another George Twyman, who married Katherine. They had
a daughter Katherine, born April 19, 1702, and was married to
John Tomson, April 13, 1727. There was a Katherine Twyman
who married Philippe Warwick, September 5, 1705.

5. JOHN, son of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth Beauford,
born in Lancaster County, Virginia, 1707, married Judith
Early. Children — John Thomas, born 1736; Anne, born
1738; James, 1740; Elizabeth, 1742; William, 1745; Abraham.
July 31, 1749; Henry, September 19, 1751; Mary, 1753; Frances,
1754; Simeon, 1756.

John and Judith Beauford settled in Bromfield Parish^
Culpeper County, Virginia, on a tract of land situated on the
Rapid Ann and Beautiful Run, the deed to which bears date
August 9, 1735, from Governor Gooch. At that time the coun¬
try was a wilderness and almost inaccessible, except by the
Rappahannock River. John Beauford, soon after marrying,
left Middlesex County, with his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Early,
the Kirtleys, Blackburns, Lewises and Bohannans, as pioneers
to this almost unknown but beautiful country. There had been
a settlement made at Germana, — the name now ruthlessly
changed by the Post-Office Department to “Wilderness," — by
Governor Spotswood, in 1714, where he had opened iron works
and encouraged German immigration. Orange, Culpeper and
Madison Counties were then all comprehended in Culpeper
County, and that comprehended in Lord Fairfax’s grant, the
Northern Neck.

John Beauford bought additional and adjoining land from
Lord Fairfax, the deed bearing the date of April 10, 1751. In

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1770, John Thomas, eldest son of John and Judith Early Beau-
ford, sold to Henry Lewis one hundred and sixteen acres of
land adjoining his father’s estate, and the following December
his father bought this, with other land near, making five hun¬
dred and eighty-two acres, from Henry Lewis. There were
many other deeds of land purchased by John, in fact, he was
one of the largest land owners in the county.

The homestead was established by the following deeds,
“Twenty-sixth day of June, anno doomoney, one thousand seven
hundred and thirty-nine, William Phillips, of Orange, St. Mark’s
Parish. From the day after date of these presents and during
the term of one hole year from thence. Next to be completed
and ended, yealding and paying therefore yearly the Rent of
one peper corn at the feast of St. Michael, the archangle, if the
same be lawfully demanded.

“(Signed) Wm. Phillipps to John Beauford.”

This tract of land was situated in the fork of Robinson River
and the Rapid Ainn, on the south side of Beautiful Run, and
adjoining the land of William Phillipps, in what is now Madison
County, near Wolftown. All these pioneers were churchmen,
and first worshiped in a small log church in what is now Green
County, built in 1723-1730, with a fort, on the road from Stand-
ardville to Charlotteville, eight or ten miles south of the Beauford
residence. Nothing is now left of either the fort or the church,
and the records of St. Thomas Parish, in which they were, have
been lost. Later the family were worshippers at “Vauter” church,
in Madison County, situated about two miles east of Wolftown,
on the road to Madison, and three miles from their home, in
St. Mark’s Parish. But in 1751 this was cut off and made Brom-
field Parish. This church was abandoned in 1798, and only
the prayer-book is now in existence.

From 1735-1739 the Scotch-Irish emigrants from Pennsyl¬
vania settled in Culpeper County, and farther south in the

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Burden Tract. Whether they were more devoted to their form
of worship or whether the church people grew indifferent and
lost their identity through separation from their church and
lack of ministers, who were generally sent out from England, it
is true the former absorbed almost the whole Northwest. From
here sprang the very flower of Kentucky's first settlers.

On the sight of the Beauford residence, near Wolf town,
there now stands only a few locust trees, no houses, no tomb¬
stones, where stood the first two-story house built in that part
of the world. People came from far and near to see it and drink
coffee, a beverage then almost unknown in that country.

John Beauford's will is dated September 13, 1785, and pro¬
bated September 17, 1787. He probably died a short time prior
to the last date. As he does not mention his wife in his will,
she probably died before he did. He bequeathed lands to his
sons Abraham and Simeon — his other children had no doubt
been provided for — also mentioned his grandsons, John and
William, sons of Simeon. Abraham and Simeon were made
executors.

BUFORD

CHAPTER IV

6. CAPTAIN JOHN THOMAS AND ANNA WATTS BU¬
FORD, OF BROMFIELD PARISH, CULPEPER

COUNTY, VIRGINIA

6. JOHN THOMAS (or simply Thomas he was usually
called), eldest son of John and Judith Early Beauford, was
born in Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, 1736.
Married Anna Watts in 1756, who was born December 12, 1738,
and was the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth B. Watts, who
were married September 14, 1737. Children: John, born Octo¬
ber 13, 1757 ; William, 1768; Nancy, October 14, 1771.

Captain Thomas Buford’s will, dated August 20, 1774, and
probated at a court held in Bedford County, November 28, 1774,
ieft all his property to his three children, reserving one-third
for his wife, Anna, for life, at her death to go to the children.
James Buford was made guardian, and Anna gave up her rights
as executrix to him. Services of Thomas Buford, as given by
his brother James to the Bedford Court, accompanying an ap¬
plication for bounty lands: “Served as sergeant under Brad-
dock and was discharged 1754, also served as sergeant under
Braddock and was discharged 1756. Sqrved under Colonel
George Washington as lieutenant and was discharged in 1758;
as lieutenant under Colonel Byrd and was discharged in 1759, also
served in another regiment under Colonel Byrd and was dis¬
charged.” For these services land warrants Nos. 663 to 667,
issued March 11, 1800, for six thousand six hundred and sixty-
six and two-thirds acres. The entire grant was located below
the Big Sandy River, and assigned to Abraham Buford for full
value received, and the Register requested to issue patents to
said Abraham Buford, in a deed made by John Buford, Jr., son
of Thomas, and James his guardian, dated July 27, 1787. Capt.
Thomas Buford had also bounty lands, which were entered by

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James Buford as guardian of Thomas’ children. “For services
performed in the last war.”

He was captain of a company from Bedford County, which
he commanded, together with two companies, one from east of
the ridge, and the other west of the James River, under Colonel
William Christian, in General Andy Lewis’ expedition against
the Indians. Capt. Thomas Buford was killed in a fierce battle
at Point Pleasant, by the Indians, October 10,1774, at the mouth
of the Great Kanawha River. His home was on Bore Auger
Creek.

The White Force, at the battle of Point Pleasant, scarcely
numbered a thousand men. Fifteen hundred Indians were led
on to the attack by Cornstalk, a gigantic warrior, whose huge
frame was often seen gliding from tree to tree, encouraging his
men with stentorian voice, “Be strong! Be strong” sometimes
arose above the tumult of battle. From early morn until sunset
the battle raged without intermission. But the skill and valor
of the Virginians prevailed. Holding their hats from behind
trees the riflemen would often tempt the savages to fire. The
hat would then drop, and when the warrior rushed forward to
scalp his fancied prey, a rifle bullet brought him down. As the
Indians began to give way Cornstalk urged them to fight, and
with his own hand struck dead one of his fellows who showed
signs of cowardice. But the Whites pressed upon them heavily
and drove them from the field.

General Andy Lewis, some time afterward, while acting in
the Council of States, left the capital at Williamsburg to return
to his home in Botetourt (now Roanoke) County to recruit his
health. But on the way he was taken ill and breathed his life
away, September 25, 1781, in the beautiful valley of Goose
Creek, at the old home place of Captain Thomas Buford, among
some of the gallant soldiers he had commanded at the victorious
battle of Point Pleasant.

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When Hunter retreated from Lynchburg a portion of his
army bivouacked on Captain Thomas Buford’s farm, a short
distance from his house. In 1829 Paschal Buford added this
to his paternal inheritance of land, eight hundred and twenty-
seven acres, known as the Holstein Plantation. On this land
once stood a block house erected by the whites for their pro¬
tection against the Indians, and it was on this place General
Andy Lewis died while on his way to his home in Botetourt.
An Indian trail led from the southwest through a gap in the
Blue Ridge Mountains and has long been known as Buford gap.
Mr. John Buford (contractor), in making an excavation on the
Virginia Tennessee Railroad, near Goose Creek, exhumed some
half dozen human skeletons, a tomahawk of stone and a number
of arrow heads, in 1850. It was in referring to this spot that Gen¬
eral George Washington said in the darkest day of the Revo¬
lutionary struggle, if all other resources fail he might plant a
single standard upon, meet the enemy at Blue Ridge, and es¬
tablish a free empire in the West.

The land referred to under the above warrants seem to have
been of little value to any one. Colonel Abraham Buford,
under date of October, 1796, informed his brother, Henry,
“There are two or three thousand acres preemption surveyed in
it, which takes the best part with my improvements.”

After the death of Capt. Thomas Buford, his wife, Anna
Watts Buford, married, second, James Scott. They had at least
two children: Nicholas, born December 14, 1780, married Mary
Pate Harrison, and died in Breckenridge County, Kentucky,
December 26, 1846, but has a son living in Kentucky. Mr. Scott
had another son, who was killed in Kentucky at the home of
Martin Wale, his half-sister’s. He was unmarried.

7. JOHN, eldest son of Captain Thomas and Anna Watts
Buford, enlisted at the age of sixteen in his father’s company
and served three years. His name is found on the pension roll
of 1840. He made application for pension July 27, 1835, at

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which time he was seventy-seven years old and resided at Bed¬
ford, Virginia. His pension was allowed for fifteen months and
eighteen days’ actual service as a sergeant in Virginia troops,
Revolutionary War. A part of this time he served under Colonel
Scruggs and Colonel Lewis. He married, December 28, 1786,
Rhoda Shrewsbury. Children — Elizabeth, born February 28,
1788, married James Fields, October 13, 1815, and died Decem¬
ber 3, 1872; Thomas, September 21, 1789, died March, 1790;
John, Jr., December 24, 1790; Samuel, February 23, 1793, prob¬
ably never married, died 1852; Nancy, February 22, 1795;
Frances, March 21, 1797, lived in Kentucky, and was twice mar¬
ried, first husband’s name was McGlothlin, second husband’s
name was Cleveland; Mildred, May 10, 1799, married George
Foultz, February 26, 1827, and died in 1888; Thomas 2nd,
November 9, 1801; Rhoda, September 13, 1803, married Lawson
Lawhorn, and died October, 1871; Polly, May 8, 1806, married
Daniel Foutz, November 30, 1826, died January 26, 1898; Wil¬
liam, August 13, 1808, died in West Virginia, of yellow fever,
date unknown; Julia, December 1, 1810, married Berry Settles,
lived in Tennessee, and died there.

John Buford died February, 1852. His wife, Rhoda Shrews¬
bury Buford, died in 1851.

8. JOHN, JR., son of John and Rhoda Shrewsbury Buford,

married Agnes - , probably in Virginia or Kentucky, went

to Missouri and settled in Jasper County on a two hundred acre
farm, and very little is known of his life. Children — William,
Mary Frances, born April 19, 1831, married William Seal, May
31, 1855, and died March 18, 1858 ; Nancy, married Mr. Perkins ;
and another daughter who married Thomas Ephraim.

John Buford, Jr., died February 18, 1854. His wife, Agnes,
died three days after, February 21, 1854.

8. NANCY, daughter of John and Rhoda Shrewsbury
Buford, married John D. Haynes, and went to Missouri, located
at Iron Mountain for a time and Logtown, three miles south of

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Ironton. Children — Druzilla, married George Horton; Frances
E., born November 6, 1825, married Samuel Tullock, November
27, 1845, died December 22, 1919; Julia, married a German
named Zinkler; Jane, married Samuel Dent and went to Cali¬
fornia and Oregon; Elvira, died young unmarried; William,
never married; James, married Mary George and went to Texas;
Susan H., born February 12, 1839, married T. Green Pratt,
October 16, 1863, died August 26, 1921 ; Nancy L., born October
30, 1840, married John B. Pratt (brother of above T. Green
Pratt), February 23, 1860, died December 14, 1885.

8. THOMAS, son of John and Rhoda Shrewsbury Buford,
married June 28, 1831, California Carty (see below), Peter Wil¬
liams officiating. Children — John M. A., August 18, 1833;
Nancy Diadem, born March 4, 1836, died unmarried, August 12,
1858; James Carter Monroe, December 16, 1839; Rhoda Jane,
October 16, 1842; Sarah A., April 14, 1844, died May 21, 1852;
William A. M., February 14, 1847, killed April 16, 1865, on
Webb’s Creek, Reynolds County, Missouri, by the Federal sol¬
diers of the Civil War.

Thomas Buford died of cholera on the way to the gold fields
of California, at White Plains, May 21, 1849. California
Buford, his wife, died August 9, 1886.

CARTY

The parental grandfathers, James and Moses Carty, came from
Kentucky to Missouri in a very early day and were among the first
settlers of Washington County, that part which is now called Rey¬
nolds County. James Carty was born August 11, 1774, married
Sallie Copeland, who was born November 18, 1771. Children —
Joseph, who married Julia Jamison, was born November 20, 1798;
Elizabeth was born March 20, 1801, married Green Goggin; Amy
Ann, born September 25, 1803, married William Cape; Joshua, born
July 28, 1806, married Charlotte Malo; Nancy,, born August 11,

1808, married Milton Goggin; Arlotte, born May 20, 1811, married
Pate Buford (see below), his first wife, California, born September
18, 1814, married Thomas Buford (see below); Adromache, born
March 18, 1818, married John Jamison; John I. C.. born November
5, 1821, was unmarried.

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Moses Carty’s children — Greenberry, who married and had a
son Joshua, that married Rhoda Buford (see below) ; William, who
married Nancy Buford (see below); James and John, married;
Amy Ann, married James Dobbins; Sallie, first married Mr. Black,
had two children; William, married Cynthia Chitwood (see be¬
low) ; and Lizzie, married John B. Wadlow, who had a son, Joe
Shelby; Martha, married for second husband Joseph P. McNail, who
was a brother of Benjamin, the great Methodist revivalist; Martha,
married James George. These with their descendants are among
the most prominent citizens of this part of the state of Missouri.

9. JOHN A. M., son of Thomas and California Carty
Buford, married Sarah Gallaher, no children. In many ways
John Buford was a remarkable man. He sold his farm in his
old days and went to New Mexico, where he died in 1910. His
wife Sarah Gallaher Buford, returned to Missouri and is living in
Reynolds County, advanced in years.

9. JAMES C. M., son of Thomas and California Carty
Buford, married Elmina Shy, who was born April 6, 1830.
Children — California, June 1, 1861; Mary, February 27, 1863;
William, April 20, 1864; Sarah, March 22, 1866; John M., Octo¬
ber 22, 1868; Lucy, October 22, 1870.

James C. M. Buford died March S, 1881. His wife, Elmina
Shy Buford, is still living.

10. CALIFORNIA, daughter of James C. M. and Elmina
Shy Buford, married January 20, 1886, D. C. Howell. Daugh¬
ter — Ollie Agnes, born October 20, 1886, married C. C. O’Dell,
the distinguished stockman and banker of Bismarck, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. O’Dell have a beautiful daughter, Mildred
Pauline, born January 6, 1908, who is the organist of the Bap¬
tist Church and one of the high school girls of Bismarck, Mis¬
souri.

10. MARY, daughter of James C. M. and Elmina Shy
Buford, married Jcrhn Bowles. Children — Lon, married Ethel
Harrison, who has been a farmer all his life; O. J„ born March
9, 1890, married Tressie Harrison, July 10, 1910, a graduate of
William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, where he afterward

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taught for two years, as associate in English. He is at present
located in Kansas City, Missouri, preaching the gospel and writ¬
ing for magazines. His oratory and poems have made him
famous.

10. WILLIAM, son of James C. M. and Elmina Shy
Buford, married Amanda Funkenberry. No children.

10. SARAH, daughter of James C. M. and Elmina Shy
Buford, married Eli Barber. Children — Leatha, Earl, Ida,
Ralph,' Fred and Clyde.

10. JOHN M. (called Jack), son of James C. M. and
Elmina Shy Buford, married, first, Mary Brazilla Johnson,
August 27, 1896. Children — James Otho, born June 10, 1897,
is an electrician at Flat River, Missouri; Eaza Otto, December
26, 1898, died February 2, 1916; William Roy, September 27,
1900, is employed in the office-force of Doe Run Lead Company ;
Jesse Howard, March 9, 1902; Mamie Elmina, November 24,
1903, died February 10, 1905; Cecil Leon, February 17, 1905;
Della May, January 1, 1908; Leonard Orville, February 8, 1910;
Eva Anna, March 7, 1912; Mary B. Johnson Buford died Sep¬
tember 22, 1916, and John M. Buford married for second wife
Margaret Virginia Brooks, December 23, 1917. Children —
Richard Monroe, October 16, 1918, died January 27, 1920;
Thomas Jefferson, born March 8, 1920, home Reynolds, Rey¬
nolds County, Missouri.

10. LUCY, daughter of James C. M. and Elmina Shy
Buford, married Hays Pyrtle. Children — Harry, Essie, Bessie,
Cecil and Minnie. Lucy Buford Pyrtle died March 24, 1908.

9. RHODA J., daughter of Thomas and California Carty
Buford, married Joshua Carty (see above), who was born
November 16, 1842. Children — Green Berryville, January 27,
1868, died unmarried October 15, 1889, of typhoid fever ; Thomas
James Milton, September 30, 1870; Sarah Ann, February 22,
1873; John Henry Moore, October 16, 1875; California, Sep¬
tember 17, 1878, died October 19, 1878; Joshua Carty died Jan-

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uary 5, 1880. His wife, Rhoda J. Carty, is still living at eighty-
one years of age. Home, Black, Reynolds County, Missouri.

.10. SARAH A., daughter of Joshua and Rhoda Buford
Carty, married Thomas Jefferson Stevens, November 10, 1887,
born August 18, 1860. Children — Joshua C., William H. James
G., Rhoda L., Hallie R., and Marie C. Sarah A. Buford Stevens
died July 8, 1903.

10. JOHN H. M., son of Joshua and Rhoda Buford Carty,
married Bertie M. Hughes, July 3, 1900. Children — Leora P.,
October 26, 1902, married Otho R. Gallaher. They have one lit¬
tle girl, Geneva Agnes, born June 6, 1921; Elsie G., February
18, 1905; Edith J., February 28, 1908; Dallas C., September 14,
1910; Willie G., February 10, 1913, and Arnold C., December
28, 1916.

7. WILLIAM, son of Captain Thomas and Anna Watts
Buford, married Annie M. Pate, October 20, 1791, daughter of

Cornelius Pate, the son of Matthew Pate, Sr. William Buford

was born in Bedford County, Virginia. Soon after the year
1810 he moved to Breckenridge County, Kentucky, and settled
on a farm near the post-office of Prince of Wales. His sister,
Nancy Wale, was left in Virginia many years before and went
to Kentucky, and their farms were now just across the road
from each other. William Buford did not remain here very
long, and probably during 1812-15, he came to Missouri, settled
in Belleview, Iron County (then Washington County), Missouri.
His and his wife’s names appear on a deed bearing the date of
1817. This farm, consisting of several hundred acres, lies at
the foot of Buford Mountain (named for him). That part of
the state was then a huge wilderness. Mr. Buford was quite
a wealthy man, owning many negroes.

David H. Palmer, deacon of Baptist Church, Belleview,
Missouri, told the writer that the name Buford would always be
sweet to him in consequence of favors done to him by William

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Buford. Children — John, May 28, 1793; Abraham (date of
birth not known), never married, died 1877; Mary (Polly),
November 1, 1794; Nancy (date of birth not known) ; William,
Jr. (date of birth not known), became intoxicated and lay out
one cold night and froze to death in Calidonia, Washington
County, Missouri; Pate, August 26, 1808; James M., about the
year 1816.

William Buford died January 17, 1842; his wife, Annie M.
Pate Buford, probably died a few years before her husband.

PATE

Richard Pate hacl patented as early as 1650 one thousand one
hundred and forty acres on the Poropotauck Creek, and was bur¬
gess of Gloucester in 1653. Administration on his estate was
granted to his nephew, John Pate, in 1657. This John Pate,
Hening records as “added to the Commission of Gloucester in 1660,”
and the only extant volume of the General Court proceedings shows
that he was “admitted & sworne one of ye Counsel of the state of
this Colony November 20, 1671.” In this volume it is further
stated that at a court held November 8, 1672, “Coil’ll John Pate,
Esq’r, dying possest of a considerable estate in this country, left
a widow out of this country, and Mr. Thomas Pate, brother’s son
to the said Pate, dec’d, appears and petitions for administration
on his said Uncle’s estate, which is accordingly granted him,”
whereupon the said Pate furnished as his securities Major Richard
Lee and Captain John Armistead. This was Major Thomas Pate,
of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, at whose house Nathaniel Bacon,
the rebel, died in October, 1676, being buried in the bed of Poropo¬
tauck to prevent Berkley from hanging his corpse on the gibbet.

The records of Gloucester having been destroyed in 1820, it is dif¬
ficult to trace the descendants of this family, but Major Thomas
Pate seems to have left two sons, John and Matthew. — Virginia
Historical Magazine,

There were intermarriages among the Cary, Pate and Wills
families.

8. JOHN, son of William and Annie M. Pate Buford, mar¬
ried, January 2, 1827, Mrs. Elizabeth Irvin, nee Davis, widow
of Alex Irvin. The ceremony was performed by Thomas Don¬
nell, in Belleview Valley. Mrs. Buford had married first Alex
Irvin in Albermarle County, Virginia, but he died soon after and

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she came to Missouri in company with her mother, sister and
two brothers. Her sister, Nancy, married William Martin, and
they had a large family — one of them was Carter Martin, a
great Baptist preacher.

Mr. Buford settled the farm at the Three Forks of Black
River, near what is now Lusterville, Reynolds County, Missouri,
in 1825. They had thirteen children; five died in infancy,
twelve after reaching maturity, and one now living. Nancy,
October 18, 1827; Mary, June 24, 1829; Martha J., December
24, 1832; Henry, 1832, died in infancy; John and William
(twins), 1833, died in infancy; Elizabeth, 1831; James, March
1, 1835, never married, died in 1853; Abraham and Lucy
(twins), May 1, 1840; Margaret and Sarah (twins), 1843, died
in infancy; Eliza, July 10, 1846.

John Buford was the first white settler of Reynolds County
and was very wealthy, but he had a big heart and was a poor
man’s friend. He had several hundred acres of good land and
his work in the county as a citizen cannot be overestimated. He
donated free gratis the grounds for a site for county seat at
Centerville and represented the county in the Legislature three
terms in succession, 1850-52-54-56 ; he was a surveyor of the
county and served as Justice of the Peace. He died March 28,
1874. His wife, Betty, born August 10, 1802, died November
10, 1863.

9. NANCY, daughter of John and Elizabeth Irvin Buford,
married in 1848, William Carty (see above). Children — Eliza¬
beth, married Charles Wadlow. Children — Nancy, Belle, Liza,
Tobe, Rolla and Corbit. Margaret married Thomas D. Shy.
Their children — Sallie, William, Albert, Charles and ZimrL
Liza died about 1875.

9. MARY, daughter of John and Elizabeth Irwin Buford,
married, first, Andrew Robinson in 1847. Children — John,
Amanda, married Mr. Melton; Elizabeth, married Henderson

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Chitwood (see below) ; Andrew Robinson died and Mary B.
Robinson married for second husband, Daniel Horney, daughter
Sarah, married Mart Barnham.

' Mary Buford died in 1915.

9. MARTHA J., daughter of John and Elizabeth I. Buford,
married in 1848, Hugh P. Faukenberry. Children — Annie,
married Edward McCabe ; James, married Martha Welsh. Their
children — Docia, Liza, Leoria, Winnie, Richmond Terrill, Lizzie,
James, Jr., and Marie. Thomas D. married Mary Rayfield;
they have two children — Emma and Arthur. Maggie married
Joseph F. January; they have three children — Wilford, Ada and
Jessie. Lizzie married William P. Brown. They have two chil¬
dren — Annie and Edward. Home at Farmington, Missouri.

Martha J. Buford Faukenberry died September 17, 1902.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of John and Elizabeth I.
Buford, married about 1850, to B. F. Campbell, son George
W., married Jane Chitwood (see below) ; they have five children
— Frank, Luther, Otho, Ollie, who married Charles Buford (see
below), and Henry (dead).

Elizabeth Buford Campbell and her husband both died in
1856.

9. ABRAHAM, son of John and Elizabeth Irvin Buford,
married America Moore in 1865. Children — John and
and William (both died in infancy), Mollie, born September,
1869; James Henry, born May 8, 1872; Blanche, born April 4,
1874; Carter Martin, born March 3, 1876; Cora, March 29,
1878 ; Charles Walter, born September 28, 1881 ; Thomas Otto,
born September 14, 1883 ; Ethel Born April 16, 1887.

“Uncle Abe ” Buford, as he was called, was without doubt
the best man in the county in his day. Like his father, he was
a great friend to the poor. He was a member of the Baptist
church for twenty-seven years and treasurer of the church for
a long time and also treasurer of the Masonic Order of which
he had been a member for forty years. He served the county

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in many ways; he was assessor of the county two terms in
succession, was a good citizen, took an active interest in politics
and was a good Democrat and faithful in performance of all
obligations and religious duties and none knew him but to love
and none spoke but to praise him.

The writer made a visit to Abe Buford and family for the
first time in the year 1903 ; never had seen or met any of them
before. Abe saw him coming at a distance, probably a half of
a mile, before he reached them. He said, “I see a Buford com¬
ing/’ to his hired hand, and when he introduced himself Abe
remarked with a smile, “I said to to my hand, I see a Buford
coming ; I can tell one as far as I can see him by the way he
walks or rides.” Abe even took me in his buggy to see his
neighbors and I never enjoyed myself better. After spending
the night they prevailed upon me to stay at least a week with
them. I went away proud of my new relatives I had met, and
deeply impressed with them ; my mind began to become a
nucleus embryoed with the great personages of the Buford Fam¬
ily, insomuch that this book has been published and offered to
the public.

Abe Buford owned a good farm of several hundred acres
near Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri, and knew how to
manage it successfully.

Abe Buford died December 18, 1912. His wife, America
Moore Buford, died in 1915.

MOORE

Alexander Moore was born in Stokes County, North Carolina,

1759, died 1847; was married to Patsy Barner, who died at the age
of eighty-six years, 1856. Children — Creed, Alfred, Newton, Wil¬
liam, Calvin, Julia and Betsey, and one who died.

Creed Moore, married Nancy Kiser; Alfred Moore never mar¬
ried; William married Mary (Polly) Westmoreland; Calvin mar¬
ried Peggy Kiser; Julia Moore married Judy Brinkle; Betsey
Moore, single.

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Children of William and Polly Westmoreland xVIoore — John,
married Martha Gordy; Alex, married Margaret Zolman, May 12,

1867; James, Catherine Copeland; America, Abe Buford (see
above); Rebecca never married; Marinda, married John Copeland;
Polly, married Landon Copeland.

Children of Alex and Margaret Zolman Moore — James W:,
married Phoebe McNew; Adeline, married William Green; Mary,
married Henry Mills; John, married Ida Treaster; Maggie, mar¬
ried Corbin Huddleston; Gus, married May Permont; Etta, mar¬
ried E. K. Hawn.

About the year 1857, William Moore, his family and a number
of his brothers and sisters, left North Carolina and drove through
on their way to Kansas and camped near Lusterville, Reynolds
County, Missouri. John Buford, passing by their tent, stopped a
few moments and talked with them. On being told he was from
North Carolina, he said, “I guess you must be all right,” and see¬
ing Mrs. Moore was sick, and that they were very worthy people,

Mr. Buford said, “I have a vacant house I will let you have for a
few days for your sick woman,” and next day Mr. Buford came
around to see how his new comers were getting along. He asked
Mrs. Moore if she liked milk. She replied that she was very fond
of sweet milk. Mr. Buford sent over the same day by the colored
man two fresh milch cows with young calves. Mr. Moore did not
expect such sj present from this stranger, but Mr. Buford would
never accept anything at any time for those two cows and calves.

Mr. Moore finding such good people and fertile land, and seeing
the fine corn growing thereon, decided he would stay and not
pursue his way to Kansas, as he had intended, but remained where
he was. The Moores and Bufords lived neighbors for many years,
and the more they became acquainted with each other the better
they liked and the more intimate they became. America Moore
married Abe Buford (see above).

William Moore was born 1814, and died 1906; his wife, Polly
Westmoreland Moore, was born 1820, died 1899. Both died at
Ellington, Missouri.

10. MOLLIE, daughter of Abe and America Moore
Buford, married, June 7, 1903, W. Z. Carter. No children.
She died July 21, 1916.

10. JAMES H., son of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married, December 15, 1912, Lina Smith. No children.

James Henry Buford is so much like his father and grand¬
father that you cannot help liking him. He graduated in medi¬
cine and received his diploma but refused to practice, as it is too
much of a humbug. He could not be honest with his fellowmen.

HISTORY

AND

GENEALOGY

SENATOR CARTER MARTIN BUFORD

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He has a large share in the Abe Buford Store Company, is a
great 'lumberman and stockman of Reynolds County; ships
probably more stock than all others combined from his county;
owns several thousand acres of land; president of his home
town bank, Ellington, and has a beautiful modern home. Resi¬
dence, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri.

10. BLANCHE, daughter of Abe and America Moore
Buford, married, first, Dr. James Copeland, May, 1892, daughter,
Erma, born, November 22, 1893. Dr. James Copeland died and
Blanche Buford Copeland married second husband, John R.
Johnson. They have two children — John, Jr., born November
6, 1911, and James, born January 17, 1917.

10. CARTER M., son of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married Carrie Copeland July 5, 1900. Children — Anthony
Abe, born 1902; Wilbur Carter Martin, born 1905; John Vernon,
born 1911. Carter Martin Buford attended the public schools
of Reynolds County, Missouri, until he was sixteen years of age,
then went to the State Normal at Cape Girardeau in 1892 and
continued there until 1897, when he was elected School Com¬
missioner of his county and served one year. In 1898 he was
elected Clerk of the Circuit Court and Recorder of Deeds and
served until 1906. In 1906 he was admitted to the bar, and is
now a practicing lawyer in his native city, Ellington, Missouri.

He was elected to the Missouri State Senate in 1906 and re¬
elected twice in succession to the same office, with the unusual
honor of being nominated and elected without opposition from
either party. In the Forty-eighth General Assembly of the
state of Missouri, he had the addititonal honor of being elected
president pro tern of the Senate. He served as chairman of the
Committees on Appropriations and Clerical force in the Forty-
ninth General Assembly, and as a member of Committees on
Judiciary, Code Revision, Penitentiary and Reform School, Uni¬
versity, Normal School, Agricultural College, and School of
Mines.

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Like his father and grandfather, Hon. C. M. Buford has
always been a Democrat and served his party. Since he was
twenty-one years of age he has not missed a Democratic State
Convention until the last one, and then sickness prevented. In
1920 he was nominated by his party for Lieutenant Governor,
but the election resulted in a land-slide for the Republican party
and he was defeated the first time in his life. Residence, Elling¬
ton, Missouri.

10. CORA, daughter of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married, August 25, 1902, John M. Delcour. They have two
children — Katherine L., born August 26, 1903; Wilma Blanche,
born October 20, 1912. Mr. Delcour is a dealer in coal and
wood. Residence, Elvins, Missouri.

10. C. WALTER, son of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married, May 21, 1916, Emma Inman. No children.

Walter Buford has a large part in and manages the firm
of Abe Buford Store Company, and is doing a good business at
Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri.

10. T. OTTO, son of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married, first, June 8, 1907, in the state of Louisana, Mary
Lessie Deen. They had two children — Marie, born July 15,
1908; Mattie, born August 6, 1911. Mary Lessie Deen Buford
died and T. Otto Buford married, second, February 11, 1919,
Laura Vallery. Children — Joseph Wendell, born April 22, 1920,
and Abraham, born October 8, 1923.

10. ETHEL, daughter of Abe and America Moore Buford,
married, October 28, 1903, Dr. T. T. O’Dell. They have two
children — Fay, born February 2, 1905; Buford, born November
21, 1909.

9. LUCY, daughter of John and Elizabeth Irvin Buford,
married, October 18, 1860, John P. George. Children — Eliza
Jane, born July 16, 1861 ; James B., born February 22, 1863, died
July 27, 1899; Sarah E., born March 18, 1865, died February 23,
1900; Mary C., born March 29, 1867; Emma, August 24, 1869,

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died July 2, 1873; Napoleon Bonaparte, born Sept. 1, 1871;
Laura, born March 3, 1874; Otho, born November 19, 1877;
Leatha, born October 26, 1882.

GEORGE.

The George family was one of the first to settle in Reynolds
County, Missouri. Two brothers were very prominent, John and
Lewis George.

John George married about 1825, Sarah Peppers. Children —
Mary, married Crocket Perry; Sarah Catherine, married Samuel
Burnham and they have two children, Sarah and Martin; James,
not married; Liza, married Thomas McMurray; John P., married
Lucy Buford (see above); Napoleon B.; William.

Lewis George married Mary Jane Eidson (see below). Chil¬
dren — James H.; Mary, married James Haynes (see above); John
P.; Fanny, married John Harold; Lucy, married W. E. Bell; Annie.

10. ELIZA, daughter of John P. and Lucy Buford George,
married John L. Dobbins, January 13, 1880. Children — Otho
James, April 16, 1884, married Mabel Robinett; they have two
children — Hazel and John; Emmett, April 8, 1888, never mar¬
ried ; Daisy, March 1, 1893, married Clyde Borrough.

10. JAMES B., son of John P. and Lucy Buford George,
married Lula Robinnett. Daughter, Mollie, married Rev. Golden
E. Neely. They have a beautiful little girl, Louise.

10. SARAH E., daughter of John P. and Lucy Buford
George, married W. Z. Carter. Son, Ray George, June 22, 1899.

10. MARY C., daughter of John P. and Lucy Buford
George, married Sherman Dickson. Children — Eunice, Robert
and Lucy.

10. NAPOLEON B., son of John P. and Lucy Buford
George, married Grace Buckner. Children — Lucile, and one
dead.

10. LAURA,, daughter of John P. and Lucy Buford George,
married Walter Wood. Children — Lorene, Maude, Pauline,
George, Roy, John, Ralph and Joseph.

10. OTHO, son of John P. and Lucy Buford George, mar¬
ried Lillie Chitwood (see Chitwood below.) Son — Hugh.

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10. LEATHA, daughter of John P. and Lucy Buford
George, married James F. Carter, son of W Z. Carter. Children
— Maude, Willard and Frank.

9. ELIZA, daughter of John and Elizabeth Irvin Buford,
married, first, Henry Robinson. No children. Henry Robinson
died and Eliza Buford Robinson married, second, 1870, Thomas
D. Imboden. Children — John, never married; Sallie, never
married; Laura (dead); Lucy, married Elihu Lewis and they
have children, Clarence, Beatty, Liza and one more; Lula, mar¬
ried Robert Ratcliff. They have one girl and three boys ; Myrtle,
married Robert Pyle ; Emmett, died young.

Eliza Buford Imboden died in 1896. Residence, Ellington,
Missouri.

8. MARY (POLLY), daughter of William and Annie M.
Pate Buford, married in Bedford County, Virginia, August 2,
1810, Henry Eidson, Sr., and shortly afterwards came to Mis¬
souri with the family of William Buford (her father), and lo¬
cated near Belleview, Missouri, in what was then called Wash¬
ington (now Iron) County. Children — William B., May 29, 1811,
married Mary (Polly) Huitt, and they had two children, James
M. and Thomas B. The mother died when the latter was born,
and the grandmother and grandfather, Polly and Henry Eidson,
Sr., took the two boys to raise. The latter died when a mere boy,
but the former married Mr. Harrison; James, May 17, 1813;
Mary Jane, July 27, 1815, married Lewis George (see the George
family above) ; Lucy Ann, February 20, 1818; Nancy, May 17,
1821, married Charles Valle; Elizabeth, October 24, 1823, died
young; Cornelia, August 30, 1826, married John Edmondson;
Lucretia, September 3, 1829, married Collin Campbell; Henry,
Jr., August 5, 1832, married, October 23, 1850, Sarah Jamison,
who was born August 22, 1834; Margaret Corrilla E., October 9,
1835, married Richard Cowan.

HENRY EIDSON, JR.

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Henry Eidson, Sr., was born in Kentucky, October 30, 1791,
and was son of William Eidson, of near Louisville, Kentucky, but
the family probably came originally from Virginia.

Henry Eidson, Sr., died November 20, 1850 ; his wife, Polly
Buford Eidson, died November 28, 1854, age sixty years and
twenty-seven days.

8. NANCY, daughter of William and Annie M. Pate Bu-
ford* married, August 3, 1831, Bartlett W. Yeargain. Son,
James B., May 11, 1832, in New Madrid County, Missouri, mar¬
ried Martha Latimore and had ten children and died in Zepher,
Texas, November 18, 1919.

Bartlett W. Yeargain died August 18, 1859 ; his wife, Nancy
Buford Yeargain, died August 15, 1832.

8. Pate, son of William and Annie M. Pate Buford, mar¬
ried, first, Arlotte Carty (see Carty Family above). Children —
Sarah A., December 11, 1831, died November 5, 1850; James,
September 21, 1834; Nancy died in infancy; William, April 7,
1838; John died in infancy; Green; Milton, died in infancy;
Simeon, September 1, 1849. Arlotte Carty Buford died of
measles, August 14, 1858, and Pate Buford married, for second
wife, Delilah Chitwood, 1859. Children — Jane, March 9, 1861 ;
Paschal, March 22, 1864; Thomas, March 16, 1867; George W.,
September 9, 1869, also a twin to him born and died the same
day; Charles, February 1, 1872, and one more died in infancy.

Pate Buford was a farmer by occupation, having followed
this all his life. He was a very prominent man, and had many
friends; was County Assessor for some time; represented Rey¬
nolds County in Legislature for two sessions in 1845 when the
county was first organized, and again in 1860, on the outbreak
of the Great Rebellion. He made some famous speeches in the
Legislature, by one of which he succeeded in getting a bill
passed offering a bounty for wolf scalps. He came back home
and secured a number of wolf scalps himself. He donated the

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MRS. PATE BUFORD PATE BUFORD

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ground for a church at Black, Reynolds County, Missouri, called
the Camp Ground.

9. JAMES, son of Pate and Arlotte Carty Buford, married,
December 18, 1855, Letitia Susan Stoner, who was born Decem¬
ber 19, 1838, died, April 12, 1887. Children — Nugent W., Jan¬
uary 11, 1857 ; and Herbert D. C., May 24, 1859, never married.
They separated over family troubles, two children being small,
ages four and two respectively, the wife being allowed custody of
them and went to Wythe County, Virginia. James Buford, mar¬
ried, second, January 28, 1867, Marie Louise Bacon, who was
born October 15, 1841, killed by a train at Iron Mountain, De¬
cember 24, 1889. Children — Lottie, January 31, 1868; James
Bacon, June 3, 1869; Henry Harry, August 3, 1870; Charles
Pate, March 18, 1878, died July 28, 1879; Annie Belie, August
1, 1880.

James Buford was Superintendent of Pilot Knob Iron Com¬
pany, at Pilot Knob, Missouri, for a number of years, and was
very successful; was elected to county office and served in this
capacity for over eighteen years, on the Democratic ticket, and
it is a question if he was not the strongest man in the county
in his day ; sometimes the very best men of his own party would
come out in the Primary election and he would get the nomina¬
tion by a considerable margin; had a pleasant disposition that
made everybody like him. He had a fine farm of 320 acres
near Belleview, Missouri ; also one in the south end of Iron
County, of 800 acres. He was a great stockman and shipped
lots of stock; owned a number of saw-mills and was a great
lumberman and shipped to various parts. In his old dajrs he
sold out his interests in Missouri and went to Mendeville, Ar¬
kansas, where he engaged again on larger scale in the lumber
business, and died September 17, 1918

10. NUGENT, W., son of James and Letitia S. Stoner Bu¬
ford, married, April 18, 1877, Addie Johnston. Children — Let-
tie, May 30, 1878; Annie B., April 27, 1880; Helen W., January

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5, 1882; James Herbert, April 3, 1884, died February 11, 1900;
Sarah Virginia, June 12, 1886; Mittie Shuff, August 21, 1888;
Eulalee, November 23, died January 21, 1911. Residence, Glade
Springs, Virginia.

11. LETTIE, daughter of Nugent W. and Addie Johnston
Buford, married, October 30, 1895, George W. Conner, of Con¬
ners Valley, Wythe County, Virginia. Five children — Willie,
Benjamin, Buford, Ethel, and Emmett. All are living but Bu¬
ford.

Mr. G. W. Conner is a salesman for wholesale house in John¬
son City, Tennessee.

11. ANNIE B., daughter of Nugent W. and Addie John¬
ston Buford, married, October 20, 1897, T. W. Rogers, of Wythe
County, Virginia. Five children — Waiter, Ruth, Virginia, Glenn
and Lorena. Farm near Washington, D. C.

11. HELEN W., daughter of Nugent W. and Addie John¬
ston Buford, married* June 18, 1902, Charles Cox, of Lee
County, Virginia. Two children — Glenn and Rolf. Farm, near
Washington, D. C.

11. SARAH, daughter of Nugent W. and Addie J. Buford,
married Arthur Taylor, of Lenoir City, Tennessee. Two children
— Buford Arthur and Roy Newton. Sarah V. Buford Taylor
died January 21, 1921. Arthur Taylor is in the real estate
business.

11. MITTIE S., daughter of Nugent W. and Addie J. Buford
married, December 30, 1908, Dr. Kyle T. Lee, from Bramwell,
West Virginia. Two children — Kyle T. Jr., and Catherine H.

Dr. Kyle T. Lee is a practicing physician, 604 MacBain
Building, Roanoke, Virginia.

10. HERBERT D. C., son of James and Letitia S. Stoner
Buford, is unmarried and was at one time a famous lawyer of
Wytheville, Virginia, but is now General Manager of Cochise
Mineral Mining Company, Paradise, Arizona.

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10. LOTTIE, daughter of James and Marie Louise Bacon
Buford, married, February 14, 1888, H. C. Clifton. Children —
Daisy, December 20, 1888, died, January 5, 1889 ; Louise, April
28, 1890, died, January, 1891; Naomi, June 24, 1892; Bessie,
August 23, 1894.

H. C. Clifton was accidently killed in a saw-mill near Cape
Girardeau, Missouri.

10. JAMES B., son of James and M. Louise B. Buford,
married, first, Mrs. David Johnson, of Annapolis, Missouri. He
married the second and third times, and has a number of
children.

He graduated in medicine in St. Louis and practiced surgery
for a time at Alexian Brothers Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, but
went with his father to Mendeville, Arkansas, to engage in lum¬
ber business, where he is now located.

10. H. HARRY, son of James and M. Louise B. Buford,
married July 2, 1896, Maude B. Crandal, who was born Feb. 6,
1869.

H. H. Buford practiced law for a time in St. Louis Missouri,
but he is at present somewhere in Pennsylvania continuing in
his legal profession.

10. ANNIE B., daughter of James and M. Louise B. Bu¬
ford, married Thomas Williams and they have a number of
children, arid live in Los Angeles, California.

9. WILLIAM, son of Pate and Arlotte Carty Buford, mar¬
ried December 20, 1860, Iowa Gulliver, daughter of William H.
Gulliver. Children — James Otho, born 1864; Henry, died in in¬
fancy; Lillie and Argie. William Buford was a Master Mason,
and loved by all who knew him. He ran the mill in Belleview,
Missouri, for a number of years, and three times was elected
Presiding Judge of the county court of Iron County, Missouri,
and made a good official.

William Buford died April 17, 1911, and his wife, Iowa Gul¬
liver Buford, died 1920.

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10. J. OTHO, son of William H. and Iowa Gulliver Bu¬
ford, married Mollie Barger. He lived for a while at De Soto,
Mo.; was street car conductor in St. Louis, Mo., for several
years, and accidentally killed himself on his ranch near Seattle,
Wash., in 1909. Had no children.

10. LILLIE, daughter of William H. and Iowa Gulliver
Buford, married Hon. John C. Horn. Children — Buford, and
several others. Home, Springfield, Mo.

10. ARGIE, daughter of William H. and Iowa Gulliver
Buford, married James J. Phillips of Belleview, Mo. Children
— Dorris (dead) ; Mignon, who is living in Detroit, Michigan.
Children — Dorothy, Mildred and Virginia.

11. DOROTHY, daughter of Argie and James J. Phillips,
married Atton Corner. Residence, Belleview, Mo.

9. GREEN, Son of Pate and Arlotte Carty Buford, was
unmarried. He was accidentally killed by Milton Galleher.
while an army of Southern soldiers encamped near Bloomfield,
Mo., in time of the Civil War. They were sitting by a tree
with some soldiers and Milton Galleher’s gun was accidentally
discharged, killing Green Buford from behind.

9. SIMEON E., son of Pate and Arlotte Carty Buford,
married in 1875, Eliza A. Packard, a native of Indiana. Chil¬
dren — William P., Oran J. and Della. Simeon E. Buford was
reared on a farm in Iron County, Missouri, and educated in
the common schools. When twenty years of age he was en¬
gaged as a clerk in a store in Belleview, where he remained
about a year. He then went to Pilot Knob, where he was em¬
ployed as a clerk for Pilot Knob Iron Company for five years.
He was then appointed deputy sheriff for one year and after*
wards engaged in merchandising business in Reynolds County,
where he remained for a few years. In 1882 Mr. Buford was
elected assessor of Iron County, and served one term. During
this time he was employed by the St. Louis Ore and Steel Com¬
pany as stock manager. In 1884 he was elected sheriff of Iron

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County and held that position one term. In 1886 he was elected
county collector and served another term. He is said to have
polled more votes than any other man in the county. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity*

About 1890 his wife, Eliza A. P. Buford, died and was
buried at Arcadia, Missouri ; 1893, he married, for second wife.
Nannie Barger. He has lived at Belleview for a number of
years, where he has been president of Belleview Bank.

10. William P., son of Simeon E. and Eliza A. P. Buford,
died September 8, 1893.

10. ORAN J., son of Simeon E. and Eliza A. P. Buford,
married and died in New Mexico. He was School Commis¬
sioner of Iron County, Missouri, and taught school a number
of years in Missouri. He died in New Mexico.

10. DELLA, daughter of Simeon E. and Eliza A. P. Bu¬
ford, married Mr. Hodge, in California, and had two children
and died there.

9. JANE, daughter of Pate and Delilah Buford, mar¬
ried, October 22, 1879, Peter G. Ruhl. Children — Lizzie, born
1880; Henry (Ned), February 26, 1882; John, 1883. Peter G.
Ruhl died in St. Louis, Missouri.

10. HENRY, son of Peter G. and Jane Ruhl, married and
lives in Elvins, Missouri. He is engineer for one of the great
lead companies.

9. PASCHAL, son of Pate and Delilah Chitwood Buford,
married, March 3, 1885, Sarah R. Middleton, daughter of W.
R. and Sarah J. Middleton. Children — Leatha May, December
26, 1885; John Will-Roy, February 7, 1887; Lawrence Allie,
January 6, 1894.

Paschal Buford’s father died when he was only ten years
old and he being the eldest of four boys, was raised by a wid¬
owed mother on a farm, and received a common school educa¬
tion ; was converted in a little log school house at Cedar Grove.
Reynolds County, Missouri, under the preaching of Rev. Robert

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Rich, United Baptist minister, September 6, 1884, and baptized
by Rev. J. W. Swift, and united with the Missionary Baptist
church at Belleview, Missouri. But he never did believe in close
communion, and on July 26, 1886, withdrew his membership
from Belleview church, and joined the General Baptist church
at Pleasant Valley. On Saturday night before the Fourth Sun¬
day in June, 1897, he was licensed to preach, and on December
26, 1897, was ordained to the full work of the ministry at Pleas¬
ant Valley Church. The death officer came to his home Novem¬
ber 29, 1899, and took away his dear companion, Sarah R. Bu¬
ford, and again April 9, 1907, death claimed his best earthly
friend, his mother. Two of his best earthly friends gone, it
was indeed a heavy blow, and he at once made up his mind
that he could stay no longer where he had made his home all
his life — now Mamma and Mother were gone.

On September 1, 1908, he gathered his children together
and started to move over hills and mountains to the far “West.”
At the end of twenty-six days’ journey he arrived at the beauti¬
ful city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, went as far south as Kelleysville,
then came back to Tulsa, and erected a building and went into
the mercantile business which he pursued for about three years.
Getting tired of city life, he sold out and went the same day
six miles east of town and engaged in a two weeks’ meeting,
preaching a sermon each day and night for two weeks without
any help. He had a number of conversions, called for help and
organized a General Baptist church. He also organized an¬
other church at Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and one at Piatt, Okla¬
homa. He placed his own membership with the church at
Ryby, Oklahoma, and was elected their state Evangelist; was
moderator a number of times in Indian Territory Association.
He was clerk of North Liberty Association ten years in succes¬
sion, while living in Missouri. He came very near to losing
his life on two occasions, among some hostile drunken Indian
Tribe, while preaching among the Indians on the plains of Okla-

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homa. This great man will never be forgotten by some
of the people of the state of Oklahoma, and his work and influ¬
ence will live on long after he has passed off the stage ot*
action.

10. LEATHA, daughter of Paschal and Sarah R. Middle-
ton Buford, married, May 7, 1907, to George W. Gibson, at
Leadwood, Missouri. They live at Seneca, Newton County, Mis¬
souri.

10. JOHN WILL-ROY, son of Paschal and Sarah R. M.
Buford, was born in Belleview, Missouri, married Margaret
Ruth, daughter of 1. J. and Eva Lackey, March 20, 1913, at
Sperry, Oklahoma. He is general manager of the Constantin
Oil Company at Collinsville, Oklahoma. Children — Elvin Lee,
born at Collinsville, September 5, 1914; Lester Roy, born March
20, 1914, died August 5, 1919, at Noel, Missouri; Laura Mae,
born October 7, 1919.

10. LAWRENCE A., son of Paschal and Sarah R. M. Bu¬
ford, was born at Belleview, Missouri, married Lillie Ex of
Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is employed by the Craton Oil Com¬
pany, is a natural born machinist.

Resides 705 So. Rockford, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

9. THOMAS, son of Pate and Delilah Chitwood Buford,
married Miss Sinclear, lives at Pickleville, Oklahoma, and is
engaged in mercantile business.

9. GEORGE WASHINGTON, son of Pate and Delilah
Chitwood Buford, married, May 20, 1896, Faora Seal, of Sabula,
Missouri. Children — Delbert Jewell, born October 29, 1898;
Odessa Violet, born January 5, 1899, died January 16, 1901 ;
Carman Robert, born September 17, 1902, died August 13, 1903.
George W. Buford was educated in the public schools of Iron
County, Missouri and William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri;
holds several first grade certificates, a normal diploma from
New York and a traffic inspection diploma from Buffalo, New
York (secret service). He was Principal of Public School of

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GENEALOGY

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GEORGE WASHINGTON BUFORD JAMES BUFORD

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Arcadia and Granitville two terms, and taught sixteen terms
of school in his county. On February 14, 1907, he entered the
service of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, at Bonne
Terre, Missouri, and remained for nine years of consecutive
service, two years of which he led the force of the entire dis¬
trict. He is co-author of the second edition of the HISTORY
OF THE BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA.

9. CHARLES, son of Pate and Delilah Chitwood Buford,
married, first, Laura Clark, about 1902. In 1904, Laura Clark
Buford died, leaving no children, and Charles Buford married,
second, Ollie Campbell (see Chitwood below). (No children.)

CHITWOOD

Once upon a time a very little boy was found who was lost
in the woods. He was too little even to tell his name, and peo¬
ple who* took and reared him called him “Chitwood,” and that is
how the name originated, it is said.

The paternal grandfather was probably born in Massachusetts,
for while he was yet a very little boy, likely not more than seven
or eight years of age, one day he ran into the house and told his
mother he heard a lot of wagons coming down the hill. It was
but the roaring of the cannon and artillery at the battle of Bunker
Hill, June 17, 1775, Revolutionary War.

This little boy had grown to manhood, married, and settled in
Kentucky, and there in Scott County reared a family of twelve
children, nine boys, namely, James, William, Andrew, John, Pleas¬
ant, Shelby, Daniel, David, and Hugh, and three girls.

In 1852, William, Andrew and Hugh Chitwood, being well ad¬
vanced in years, married, and with grown families camei to Mis¬
souri and settled in Reynolds County, when it was but a vast
wilderness, and were among the first white settlers, when farmers
had to cut their wheat with a reap hook. Daniel Chitwood and
his sisters moved to Henry County, Missouri, when there were
no white settlers, but the Indians were lurking upon the fertile
spots, and he hunted wild animals a-many a day with them, while
Shelby Chitwood settled probably in Jasper County, where there
are still some of the Chitwood descendants.

2. Children of William Chitwood — M. Beatty, married a
Lewis, Aaron, married Polly Sutton; Elizabeth, married Thomas
Dickson, who went to Walla Walla, Washington. Thomas Dick¬
son had a nephew, Sherman, who married Mary (Mollie) C.
George (see the George Family above).

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3. Children of Beatty Chitwood, son of William Chitwood, —

Jane who married George Campbell, and they had a daughter,
who married Charles Buford (see above); Izora, Udora, Nim, Nel¬
son and Glover.

2. Children of Andrew Chitwood — Isaac; M. Beatty, who mar¬
ried a Webb; Delana, married Thomas S. Barnes; Wayne; Henry
T., married Fanny Coleman; China, married Eli Lewis; Sallie,
married John Wadlow, and there were some others.

2. Hugh Chitwood was born in Scott County, Tennessee,
October 27, 1812, married Jane Nicholas, daughter of Elisha and
Phoebe Nicholas. Children — Jonathan, married Malissa — — — ,
and they had nine children (Andy, Aaron, Hugh, who has a daugh¬
ter, Lillie, that married Otho George (see George family above) ;
Charity, who married Wiley Pogue; Arta Malissa, married William
Spear; Henderson, married a Williams; Polly, married Thomas
Chilton; Jane, married Thomas Davis; William W., married a
daughter of Mr. Skiles; (other children of Hugh Chitwood besides
Jonathan); Delilah, married Pate Buford (see above); Cynthia,
married William Black (see Carty Family above); Nancy, mar¬
ried John Brown; Henderson, married Elizabeth, daughter of Mary
Buford Robinson (see above); Elizabeth (Betty), married, first,
George Baker, second, James Taylor; Seth, married, first, Fanny
Rutter, second, her sister, Agnes Rutter, third, Gertie Boney,
fourth, Cynthia Phillips (born Rumburg), who died in spring of
1923.

Hugh Chitwood died August 22, 1885; his wife, Jane Nicholas
Chitwood, died October 26, 1891. She was born January 15, 1815.

Mr. Chitwood never charged a travelling man for staying all night
with him.

Children of William and Cynthia Chitwood Black — Margaret,
Rhedmond, Lizzie, Phoebe, Clem, Fanny, Joe, James and Sallie.

Children of John and Nancy Chitwood-Brown — Hugh, John
(Red), James, Fannie, George, Jef, Joe and Giles.

Children of Henderson and Betty Robinson Chitwood — John,
William, George, Liza, Lucy and Sallie.

Children of George and Betty Chitwood — Clinton, Drew and
George.

Children of Seth Chitwood — Gentry, Granville, James, Thomas,
Laura and Liza.

8. JAMES M., son of William and Annie Pate Buford,
never married. He mustered up twenty-five wagons and teams,
and hired men to go to the gold fields of California in 1849,
during the great excitement of that time. They had to go in
emigrant wagons, several in number, so as to be protected from
the hostile Indians. One evening, away out on the western

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plains, they came into contact with a stealthy Indian Tribe,
which slipped around and stole James M. Buford’s horse dur¬
ing the night. James swore he would shoot the next Indian he
saw, but his comrades told him it would not be best. A squaw
rode by their camp soon after and he shot her from her pony.
That night when they had all come into the camp from hunting,
about fifty Indians came down upon them and demanded who
it was that killed the squaw, and they had to tell them, for the
sake of their own lives. They captured all the emigrants by force
and took them to their own camp, where they then drove slabs
in the ground to which they tied him hand and foot, and the
rest were forced to look on while as many as could got around
him and began to skin him alive, and after they had finished
their work they wrapped his body in a blanket and threw it
into the fire. One of the emigrants wrote his brother what had
taken place, and that he would never forget the dying cries and
the begging for mercy.

7. NANCY, daughter of Captain Thomas and Annie Watts
Buford, married Martin Wales in Badford County, Virginia,
January 4, 1791. He was born in Culpepper County, Virginia,
January 18, 1769 (name also written Wales, Wyles; Nancy and
Martin both spelled it Weels). Children — Elizabeth, born in
Virginia, October 25, 1791; Ann, September 26, 1793; Mar¬
garet, June 8, 1796; Thomas, September 2, 1798 ; John Lawson,
November 14, 1800; William Buford, April 30, 1803; Hopkins
Otey, born in Breckenridge County, Kentucky, May 20, 1807 ;
Buford, February 26, 1810, unmarried, died in Breckenridge
County, Kentucky, April 30, 1835; Henry Harrison, May 5,
1815; Martin Wale, died in Breckenridge County, Kentucky.
April 16, 1850.

Nancy Buford Wale died October 30, 1852.

8. ELIZABETH, daughter of Martin and Nancy Buford
Wale, married Joel Shrewsbury. Children — Elvira, Thomas
Buford, Polly Ann, John Lawson, Nancy, Marguerite Jane.

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Elizabeth Wales Shrewsbury, died July 24, 1875, in Breck-
enridge County, Kentucky.

8. ANN, daughter of Martin and Nancy Buford Wale,
married Rev. William Bratcher, about 1821. Children — Nancy,
Armilda, Jackson, Jefferson, Martin, Margaret, Eliza and
Buford.

Ann Wales Bratcher died in Breckenridge County, Ken¬
tucky, September 13, 1858.

8. MARGARET, daughter of Martin and Nancy Buford
Wale, married Firstel Beard. Children — Emmerine, Eliza and
William.

Margaret Wale Beard died in Texas.

8. WILLIAM BUFORD, son of Martin and Nancy Buford
Wale, married, first, Jane Crawford. Children — Julia, Eliza,
Rosina. William B. Wale married, second, Lucinda Basham.
Children — Nancy Buford, Francis and Sallie Martin.

William B. Wale died in Breckenridge County, Kentucky..
April 30, 1855.

8. HOPKINS OTEY, son of Martin and Nancy Buford
Wale-, married Sallie Bruington. Children — Amanda, Mary,
Emma, Clinton, Dewitt, Mattie, Betty and Laura.

Hopkins Otey Wale died in Breckenridge County, Ken¬
tucky, June 1, 1877.

8. HENRY HARRISON, son of Martin and Nancy Bu¬
ford Wale, married Mary Joseph Woolfolk, July 2, 1840. Chil¬
dren — Nancy, Joseph Woolfolk, born May 3, 1844, died April 14,
1845; David Van Meter, Julius Winfield, Susan Crutcher, Benja¬
min Franklin, born April 15, 1853, in Hardin County, Kentucky,
died September 16, 1855; Laura Belle, Luella Graves and Vir¬
ginia Lee, born May 27, 1864.

Henry Harrison Wale was a doctor and practiced medicine.
He died in Jasper County, Missouri, January 24, 1872, and was
buried in E. Cemetery, Carthage, Missouri.

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9. NANCY BUFORD, daughter of Henry Harrison and
Nancy Woolfolk Wale, born April 2, 1842; married Ho¬
ratio Whitfield Clayton Nall, December 7, 1865. Children--
Stella Boone, born March 17, 1869, unmarried; David Eugene,
born February 21, 1871, married Lucy Ballard but have no chil¬
dren ; Henry Clayton, born April 8, 1880, married Bertha Fraser,
June 10, 1903; Strather Boone, born June 17, 1882, is married
and has three sons.

9. DAVID VANMETER, son of Henry Harrison and
Mary Woolfolk Wale, was born June 10, 1846, married Adalina
Smith in Carthage, Missouri, November 28, 1878. They have
no children. He was an M. D. in general practice at Jasper,
Missouri, and in 1893 he moved to Carthage, Missouri, and
practiced as an oculist, aurist and throat specialist. He
passed away in Carthage, Missouri, February 17, 1914, and was
buried in the west side cemetery in Carthage.

9. JUNIUS WINFIELD, son of Henry Harrison and Mary
Woolfolk Wale, was born September 2, 1847, in Kentucky, mar*
ried Alice Allen of Garnetsville, Kentucky, July 2, 1878. Chil¬
dren — Henry, born September, 1879 (dead) ; Charles David,
born March 13, 1881, married Eva Morris in Louisville, Ken¬
tucky, June 4, 1921. No children. Kate, born February 5, 1885,
dead, married Samuel Anderson in Louisville, Kentucky.
Death was caused by the “flu” in 1918, leaving a little son, Sam¬
uel Allen Anderson, a few days old. Nellie, born June 9, 1887,
in Missouri, married Frank Denzinger in Louisville, Kentucky.
They have three children, Katharine, the eldest, born May, 1921.
They now live in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

9. SUSAN CRUTCHER, daughter of Henry Harrison and
Mary Woolfolk. Wale, was born in Breckenridge, Kentucky, July
21, 1850, married William Brown Lewis of Nelson County,
Kentucky, April 18, 1872, at Carthage, Missouri. They went
at once to live in Chariton County, Missouri, where her hus¬
band was engaged in the trade of plasterer. Children — Wil-

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liam Arthur, born in Salisbury, Chariton County, Missouri, Jan¬
uary 18, 1873, married Mrs. Ida Belle Green (nee Gassoway) of
Dallas, Texas, March, 1914. They have one child, Frederick
John William, born December 18, 1914. They now reside in
Kansas City, Missouri. Fannie, born August 25, 1875, in Jasper
County, Missouri, married William Oliver Mclndoo, October 30,
1900. No children. They were married in Jasper County, Mis¬
souri, and immediately left for Commerce, Texas, where her
husband taught school, and later practiced law in San Antonio,
Texas. In 1904 he became interested in the distribution of
books and assisted in organizing the Western Book Company,
with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, where they moved.
Later, they moved to Toronto, Canada and organized the Do¬
minion Book Company and published books on natural history.
They remained in Canada nearly ten years, staying two years
after the outbreak of the great World War, at which time busi¬
ness in Canada became very unsettled on account of her aggres¬
sive attitude and large part taken in the war.

While in Canada they visited many places of interest, among
which was the city of Quebec, with its “break-neck’’ stairs, its
“Golden Dog” above the door of the postoffice, about which
Wm. Kirby wrote so interesting a novel, the “Calash” ride, in
imitation of the 18th century, the Duke of Kent’s house, the
Multnomah Falls, and St. Anne de Beaupre.

In 1916 they returned to Kansas City. Missouri, and organ¬
ized the Mclndoo Publishing Company, and began the publica¬
tion of nature study textbooks for schools and other books for
the home.

John Wale Lewis, born January 16, 1881, near Carthage,
Missouri, died March 16, 1887.

Frank Lewis, born February 16, 1886, died September,
1887.

9. LAURA BELLE, daughter of Henry Harrison and
Mary Woolf oik Wale, born June 15, 1856, in Hardin County,

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Kentucky, married, February 14, 1878, in Jasper County, Mis¬
souri, Edwin Johnson Hille, born in Virginia. Children — Zai-
dee Pearl, died March 4, 1885; Mary Jane, born in Jasper
County, Missouri, now studying for her second degree at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland ; Margaret Wale, born
in Jasper County, Missouri, married Joseph McCaddon in 1914
and lives in Paragould, Arkansas. No children. Virginia, born
in Jasper County, Missouri, married Roy Coady of Spring-
field, Missouri, in 1915. They had a son, Roy Edwin, born
November 14, 1920, died a few months later; the second child,
Laura Virginia, born April 9, 1922. They now live in Okla¬
homa; Lucy McCarty, youngest daughter, now lives with her
parents near Jasper, Missouri.

9. LUELLA GRAVES, daughter of Henry Harrison and
Mary Woolfolk Wale, born in Kentucky, September 21, 1860, died
April 7, 1886, married Henry Clay Hefley, September 14, 1879,
born in Kentucky. Children — Mamie, born July 15, 1881 (dead) ;
Roger Elmer, born June 9, 1882, in Jasper, Missouri, joined
the U. S. Army before he was of age and is now stationed
in Virginia, married Jessie Majors of Carthage, Missouri, April
23, 1916. They have one child, Dora Wale, about 7 years old;
Mabel Claire, born in Jasper County, Missouri, March 15, 1884,
married Charles Chapman in Carthage, Missouri. Children —
Charles, the eldest, Hanry Clay and a third child all born in
Jasper County, Missouri. Leo Ray and Leon Fay, twins, born
in California, May 6, 1922. They now reside in California.

CHAPTER V

6. ANNA BUFORD AND HENRY LEWIS, OF SPOTTSYL-

VANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA

6. ANNA, daughter of John and Judith Early Beauford,
of Bromfield Parish, Culpepper County, Virginia, born 1738,
married Henry Lewis of Spottsylvania County, Virginia. Chil¬
dren — John, married Miss Brown; was in the Revolutionary
War, and was wounded in the thigh, moved to Henderson
County, Kentucky; William, who lived in Culpeper County,
Virginia; Thomas Abraham, married Miss Gaines, lived in Mad¬
ison County, Virginia; Simeon, married Miss Campbell, lived in
Barren County, Kentucky; Henry, married in Culpeper County,
Virginia, and lived there; James, died young.

7. WILLIAM, son of Henry and Anna Buford Lewis,

married Miss Brown, sister of his brother John’s wife. They
had twelve sons and two daughters. He served in the Revo¬
lutionary War when sixteen years of age. Their son John mar¬
ried - Walker. Children — James Walker, born 1810-1812,

married, and had children, lives near Culpeper Court House,
Virginia; Dr. William, of Culpeper Court House, and Mary
Mildred, who married Jeffreys, and lives near Culpeper Court
House.

7. THOMAS, son of Henry and Anna Buford Lewis,
married, first, Anna Rice. Children — Simeon, never married;
Fielding, married Nancy Johnson; Nancy, married James John¬
son, brother of Nancy; James, married Sarah Hall; Henry. Anna
Rice died, and Thomas married, second, Isabella McDougal;
Lived in Nelson County, Kentucky, near Bardstown.

8. HENRY, son of Thomas and Anna Rice Lewis, born
December 3, 1789, married, July 7, 1812, Linda Cleggett, daugh¬
ter of Thomas Linthicum, of Maryland, who afterwards moved
to Bardstown, Kentucky. Children — Simeon Buford, Burr H.,

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Edward, Burton, Robert, Sarah Eliza, James Henry, Joseph,
and Fielding, died young. Lived at Bardstown, Kentucky.

Henry Lewis died April 25, 1864.

9. SIMEON BUFORD, son of Henry and Linda Cleggett
Lewis, married. Children — Martha Ann, married Henry Cole¬
man, of Harrodsburg. Their sons, Thomas and James, are Bap¬
tist ministers.

9. SARAH ELIZA, daughter of Henry and Linda Cleg¬
gett Lewis, born January 12, 1820, married, June 28, 1836.
Major Harrison Ewell, born November 10, 1812, son of Martin
Ewell. Children — John J., born January 1, 1842, died Septem¬
ber 30, 1861; Linda Elizabeth, February 14, 1844; Martha Ann,
died young; Nancy Rebecca, born May 23, 1846; V. Harrison,
born June 14, 1850; Martin Buford, born December 2, 1854;
Sarah Todd, April 20, 1856; Robert Lee, October 4, 1861.

Harrison Ewell died August 8, 1885. Sarah Eliza Ewell
died July 7, 1890. Lived at Owensboro, Kentucky.

10. LINDA ELIZABETH, daughter of Harrison and
Sarah Eliza Ewell, born February 14, 1844, married, March 4,
1868, Horace Haskins, of Owensboro, Kentucky, born April 22,
1842. He was the son of Alfred and Arrabella Miller Has¬
kins. Children — Olive, born July 18, 1869, died May 17, 1876;
Nannie Bell, June 18, 1872; Horace Maynard, June 26, 1874.
died April 10, 1884; Sewell and Lewis, April 20, 1876; Lewis
died in infancy; Eliza Todd, January 10, 1878; Beverly, Sep¬
tember 13, 1881; Joseph Martin, July 13, 1884; Linwood, Au¬
gust 10, 1887.

11. NANNIE BELL, daughter of Horace M. and Linda
Elizabeth Haskins, born June 18, 1872, and married Clem
Brown.

10. NANCY REBECCA, daughter of Harrison and Sarah
Ewell, born May 23, 1846, married W. H. Mobberly, who died in
1881. His wife died in 1882.

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

LEWIS

1. General Robert Lewis, one of the Welsh Brothers, was a
lawyer by profession. He resided in Brecon, Wales, until he went
to London, with a view to practicing his profession, but emigrated
in a short time to America, and settled in Abington, Ware Parish,
Gloucester County, Virginia, about the middle of the seventeenth
century; had issue.

John, Sr., born in England, where he wTas educated and mar¬
ried in 1666, to Isabella Warner. In her honor he called his seat
in Gloucester ‘‘Warner Hall.” He died 1725; had issue, seven chil¬
dren; the first,

3. Major John, Jr., of Gloucester* County, a member of the
Virginia Council, was born November 30, 1669, married Frances
Fielding. She died in 1731. He died in 1754. They had issue —
Colonel Robert, of Belvoir; Albermarle, who married Jane Merri-
wether, and died 1757; Colonel Charles of “The Byrd,” married
Lucy Taliaferro about 1750; Colonel Fielding married, first, Cath¬
erine Washington, a cousin of George Washington, second, Betty,
a sister of George Washington.

4. Colonel Robert and Jane Merri wether Lewis had issue —
Mildred, who married John Lewis of Fredericksburg, Virginia, a
lawyer by profession. Robert and Jane had four other children,
among them Mary who married Samuel E. Cobb, of Georgia, and
Sarah, who married Dr. Walter Lewis, a brother of John. John
Lewis, who married Mildred, above, was a son of Zachary, who
was born in WTales in 1702', and was one of Missouri’s most dis¬
tinguished lawyers. He married Mary Waller in 1725, who died
in 1781. Zachary died in King and Queen, or Middlesex, in 1765.
He was a son of Jean Lewis, born in France, 1678, a lawyer by pro¬
fession, who died in England, age ninety-two. John was born
October 18, 1729, and died September 12, 1780. He was called the
honest lawyer. He quit the practice of law and turned his atten¬
tion to the practice of medicine. Both John and Dr. Waller Lewis
lived in Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania County, Virginia. Henry
Lewis, above, who married Ann Buford, was probably the son of one
of these.

CHAPTER VI

6. CAPTAIN JAMES AND ELIZABETH BRAMBLETT
BUFORD, OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA .

6. JAMES, son of John and Judith Early Beauford, born
in Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, married July
14, 1761, Elizabeth Bramblett, of Bedford County, Virginia,
Children — John, William, James, Jr., Simeon, Abraham, Am¬
brose, Henry, Judith, Elizabeth and Frances. The above,
James, Sr., was from 1761 a resident of Bedford County, Vir¬
ginia. He was one of the pioneers who laid out the town of
Liberty, now Bedford City, was one of the presiding magis¬
trates of the court, and prominent in many respects. In 1786
he made a deed as one of the trustees of the town. In the
Revolutionary Archives of Virginia State Militia, under date
of March 22, 1777, “Captain James Buford was allowed pay,
rations, etc., for his company to the 15th instant, £997, Is 9d.”
On November 5, 1792, he appointed his son, James, Jr., attor¬
ney, to attend to his business affairs in Virginia, and soon after
he took the rest of his family and moved to Scott County, Ken¬
tucky. James, Jr., remained in Virginia, and can not be after¬
wards identified.

With this branch of the family should be the records of
Major Calvin Buford, of Lexington, Kentucky, whose life is so
beautifully written by John Fox, Jr., in “The Little Shepherd of
Kingdom Come,” and the wonderful life of Shad, his nephew, the
hero of the story in the book.

7. JOHN, son of James and Elizabeth Bramblett Bu¬
ford, born in Bedford County, Virginia, 1764, married about
1792, in Lincoln, afterward Garrard County, Kentucky, Frances
Turpin Banton. Children — Nancy, Judith, James, John, Jr.,
Frances and Elizabeth Calloway.

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John Buford, Sr., went to Kentucky with his uncle, Colonel
Abraham, with whom he had served during the Revolutionary
War. He made application for pension September, 1833, at
which time he was sixty-nine years of age and residing in Gar¬
rard County, Kentucky. Pension allowed for nine months'
actual service as a private, Virginia troops, Revolutionary War.
He served under Captain John Otis and Colonel Merri wether.

8. NANCY, daughter of John and Frances T. Banton
Buford, married James Mershon. Children — Robert, John,
Andrew, James and Henry.

9. ANDREW, son of James and Nancy Mershon, married
Lucinda Wilson. Children — John, Annie, Ellen and George.

10. JOHN, son of Andrew and Lucinda Mershon, married

Jennie - . Child — George.

10. ELLEN, daughter of Andrew and Lucinda Mershon,
married D. B. Carter. Child — Lucile.

9. JOHN, son of James and Nancy Buford Mershon, mar¬
ried Kitty Wilmot. Children — John, Mary and Jesse.

10. MARY, daughter of John and Kitty Mershon, mar¬
ried - Waters. They had seven children.

10. JESSE, son of John and Kitty Mershon, married Miss
Kennedy.

8. JUDITH, daughter of John and Frances Banton Bu¬
ford, married John Mershon. Children — Marion, Armida,
Frances, Elizabeth, Orlando and Sangrado. They moved to
Davidson County, Tennessee.

8. JAMES, son of John and Frances T. Banton Buford,
married Mrs. Sallie Hall Gibson. No children.

James Buford died in 1854.

8. JOHN, JR., son of John and Frances T. Banton Bu¬
ford, married Mary Berry, of Lancaster County, Kentucky.
Moved to Lafayette County, Missouri. Children — Sarah Ann,
Frances, Elizabeth, Eliza, Amanda, John Yantis, James Frank¬
lin, William Harvey and Priscilla.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

8. FRANCES, daughter of John and Frances T. B. Buford,
married Magill. They had one child, Mrs. Magill Terrill, who
lived in Brackenridge, Missouri. For second husband, Frances
married Adam Rogers. Children — Ann (died), James (died),
Joel, Ella (died), Benjamin, a soldier in the United States
Army, was killed in the Custer Massacre, and Bettie Rogers
Armer. Frances B. Rogers died in 1857.

8. ELIZABETH CALLOWAY, daughter of John and
Frances T. B. Buford, born September 27, 1814, married Decem¬
ber 16, 1840, to John White Parks. Children — Frances Buford,
John Buford, James Buford, Mary Williams, Nancy and Emma,
all born in Madison County, Kentucky.

9. FRANCES BUFORD, daughter of John W. and Eliza¬
beth C. B. Parks, born December 16, 1841, married March 21,
1865, Thomas Jefferson Smith. Children — Solomon Buford,
born January, 1866, died July, 1866; Thomas Jefferson Smith,
Jr., born July 6, 1867. Residence, Richmond, Kentucky.

9. JOHN BUFORD, son of John W. and Elizabeth C. B.
Parks, born January 18, 1844, married in 1870, to Margaret E.
Wallace. Children — John White, born 1871, and died 1872;
Fannie Buford, born November 11, 1873; Jane Wallace, born
February 14, 1870; Margaret E. W. Parks died August, 1886.

John Buford Parkes served three years in the Civil War,
in the 6th Kentucky Cavalry, United States Army.

9. MARY WILLIAMS, daughter of John W. and Eliza¬
beth C. B. Parks, born October 14, 1848, married, February 28,
1878, to William Walker Watts. Child — Emma Parks, born
October 7, 1887.

9. NANCY, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth C. B.
Parks, born September 20, 1851, married Joel Parmer Embry.
Children — Elizabeth Buford, born October 1, 1884; Joel P. Em¬
bry died August 1, 1895.

9. EMMA, youngest daughter of John W. and Elizabeth
C. B. Parkes, born July 13, 1854, married November, 1883,

HISTORY

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GENEALOGY

ELIZABETH CALLOWAY BUFORD PARKS

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Jacob Whitely Hendron, of Virginia. Child — Mary Buford,
born August 7, 1884, died December 8, 1892; Emma Parks
Hendron died April 4, 1886.

7. WILLIAM, son of James and Elizabeth Bramblett' Bu¬
ford, born in Virginia, married, October 11, 1783, Martha Hill
Logwood, daughter of Thomas Logwood, of Bedford County,
Virginia. Children — Lucinda, Pamala, Matilda and Hillary.

William Buford was killed by the Indians, near Crab Orch¬
ard, Kentucky, in 1794, when taking his family to settle in that
state. His widow, Martha Hill Logwood Buford, married
Stephen Hubbard of Bedford County, Virginia, January 14, 1796.

8. LUCINDA,, daughter of William and Martha Hill Bu¬
ford, married Jeremiah White, March 31, 1806.

8. PAMALA, daughter of William and Martha Hill Bu¬
ford, married in 1802, Alexander Gibbs, of Virginia. Children
— Nancy, Patsy, Pamala, Ann, Elizabeth, Julia, Buford, Stephen,
Hillary, Alex, James, Thomas, Joel and John. Came from Vir¬
ginia and settled in Madison County, Kentucky.

9. PAMALA, daughter of Alexander and Pamala Gibbs,
married John Watts. Children — Nine, one of them, Edna Eliza¬
beth, married W. N. Boatman. Their children are : Alma, Wil¬
liam Watts, Julia, Anna, Maud, Birdie, James Delaney, Ora
Wesley, Leroy, Estelle and John Robert, who resides in Rich¬
mond, Virginia, and is a minister of the Christian Church.

9. ANN, daughter of Alexander and Pamala Gibbs, mar¬
ried - Bush. Children — Tillman and Alex.

10. ALEX GIBBS, son of Ann and - Bush, married

Edith Ritter. No children. Residence, Louisville, Kentucky.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander and Pamala Gibbs,
married Thomas Francis. Children — Susan, James and Pamala.

9. HILLARY, son of Alexander and Pamala Gibbs, mar¬
ried Martha Burnside. Children — Alex, Luther, Clara and
Patty.

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

10. LUTHER, son of Hillary and Martha B. Gibbs, mar¬
ried Margaret Walker.

10. PATTY, daughter of Hillary and Martha B. Gibbs,
married William Haden. Reside in Jassamine County, Kentucky.

10. CLARA, daughter of Hillary and Martha B. Gibbs,
married Elijah Beazley. Children — Patty and Brannan.

9. JOEL, son of Alexander and Pamala Gibbs, married
Leanna Yates. Children — Alex and Lucy.

10. ALEX, son of Joel and Leanna Gibbs, married Bessie
Rayburn. Child — Lucile.

10. LUCY, daughter of Joel and Leanna Gibbs, married
Robert Patton. Children — Lucia and Sallie Gibbs.

8. MATILDA, daughter of William and Martha Hill Bu¬
ford, married Jacob White, December 18, 1812.

7. SIMEON K., son of James and Elizabeth Bramblett Bu¬
ford, married, first, Mary Barr of Lancaster County, Ken¬
tucky. Children — John W., Sarah, Lawson H., James B.,
Thomas and Ambrose. Mary B. died and Simeon K. married,
second, August, 1820, the widow of Strother Gaines (Ann Mary
Fisher), whose children, born in Mercer County, Kentucky,
were Nancy Strother, July 12, 1811, and James B.. November
29, 1816, died August 7, 1892. Simeon and Ann M. F. Buford’s
children — Thomas Mitchel, born May 14, 1821 ; Ambrose Fisher,
born March 11,1829, lived in Shelby County, Kentucky.

8. LAWSON H., son of Simeon K. and Mary Barr Buford,

married Catherine D - . Children — William H., John W.

(died), Simeon T. (died), L. P. (died), and Lawson.

Lawson Buford died April, 1860. Catherine died May 30,
1895.

9. JOHN W., son of Lawson H. and Catherine D. Buford,
married and had sons, John and Daniel.

9. WILLIAM H., son of Lawson H. and Catherine D. Bu¬
ford, born April 17, 1837, married, June 22, 1859, to Nancy - .

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

Lived in Indianapolis, Indiana. Son Otto, born October 13, 1872,
who lived in Greenville, Kentucky.

9. LAWSON S., son of Lawson H. and Catherine D. Bu¬
ford, married and had three sons and three daughters; lived in
Wickliffe, Indiana.

8. JAMES B., son of Simeon K. and Mary Barr Buford,
born April 3, 1803, married in Shelby County, Kentucky, July
12, 1820, Nancy Strother Gaines, who was born July 12, 1811,
daughter of Strother and Ann Mary F. Gaines, and a step¬
daughter of Simeon K. Buford. Children — Elizabeth Ann, born
April 26, 1828; America Catherine, August 12, 1830; Sarah
Agnes, January 1, 1832; Strother Simeon, born April 28, 1833;
Susan Frances, born January 11, 1835; Mary Ellen, born Feb¬
ruary 6, 1838, died October 13, 1865; John Archibald Cameron,
born December 22, 1839 ; Amanda Melvina, October 4, 1841 ;
Martha Jane, born May 19, 1844; Henry Clay, born July 2, 1845;
Emeline Taylor, born December 11, 1846; Hariet Eliza, born
October 23, 1848; Thomas Lawson, born July 20, 1850; Alice
Venable, born March 22, 1853.

John B. Buford died March 6, 1861. Nancy, his wife, died
March 4, 1885. They lived in Shelby County, Kentucky.

9. ELIZABETH A., daughter of James B. and Nancy G.
Buford, married Thomas Kelly, and died April 5, 1881.

9. SARAH A., daughter of James B. and Nancy G. Bu¬
ford, married July 20, 1858, in Shelby County, Kentucky,
Ruben Ellis. Children — Joseph T., born May 20, 1859; James
Buford, born September 10, 1862; William Dow, born June 23,
1868; lived in Bagdad, Shelby County, Kentucky.

9. STROTHER. SIMEON, son of James B. and Nancy G.
Buford, married December 17, 1862, at Marshall, Kentucky,
Mary Elizabeth Robertson, born December 22, 1842. Children
— Sarah H., born September 14, 1863; Alice Bell, born Decem¬
ber 26, 1865 ; live in Frankford County, Kentucky.

9. SUSAN F., daughter of James B. and Nancy G. Bu¬
ford, married, December 22, 1859, in Shelby County, Kentucky,
Isaac Williams, born July 24, 1823; daughter, Nannie Buford,
born October 1, 1860.

10. NANNIE B., daughter of Isaac and Susan B. Wil¬
liams, married January 8, 1880, in Franklin County, Kentucky,
George William Smith, born September 20, 1854. Children —
William Isaac, born December 3, 1880; Susan Barnes, born
March 8, 1882; Richard C., born July 23, 1885; Lizzie, born
March 3, 1888; Benjamin T., born December 25, 1891. They
live at Orr, Anderson County, Kentucky.

9. AMERICA C., daughter of James B. and Nancy G.
Buford, married December 22, 1854, in Shelby County, Ken¬
tucky, Sanford R. Sewell, born December 30, 1833. Children
— Georgia Ann, April 2, 1862; Thomas McClelland, December
3, 1863; Henry Clay, July 16, 1865; James B., April 19, 1867;
Nannie, January 28, 1869; Emma T., August 20, 1870; Joseph

W., March 2, 1872; Samuel R., January 23, 1874; Mary, -

3, 1876. Sanford R. Sewell died March 23, 1893, Bethlehem,
Kentucky.

10. GEORGIA ANN, daughter of Sanford R. and America
C. B. Sewell, married Preston Collins.

10. THOMAS McCLELLAND, son of Sanford and Amer¬
ica C. B. Sewrell, married, November 25, 1893, at Clark, Indiana,
Roxie Sewell ; live at Bethlehem, Kentucky.

10. HENRY CLAY, son of Sanford R. and America C.
B. Sewell, married, April 19, 1893, Montgomery, Kentucky, Mary
Katherine Ross; live at Thompson, Clark County, Kentucky.

10. JAMES B., son of Sanford R. and America C. B. Sew¬
ell, married, December 12, 1888, at Clark, Indiana, Annie Neal,
born May 7, 1865. Children — Eugene Beard, born February 11,
1891; Willie Mabel, September 11, 1892.

10. NANNIE, daughter of Sanford R. and America C. B.
Sewell, married Samuel Stapleton, of Shelbyville, Kentucky.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

10. EMMA TAYLOR, daughter of Sanford R. and Amer¬
ica C. B. Sewell, married Willis James.

10. MARY, daughter of Sanford and America C. B. Sewell,
married Joseph Roberts, Lockport, Henry County, Kentucky.

9. JOHN A. C., son of James B. and Nancy G. Buford,
married, March 22, 1865, in Shelby County, Kentucky, Sarah M.
Johns, born November 14, 1841. Children — John W., born April
4, 1869; James T., January 10, 1872; Mary Elizabeth, May 7,
1873; Nannie Bell, May 31, 1876; and Samuel Tilden, Novem¬
ber 3, 1879. Sarah M. J. Buford died March 31, 1893.

9. Amanda M., daughter of James B. and Nancy G. Bu¬
ford, married, April 6, 1861, in Shelby County, Kentucky,
Thomas Robertson, born September 6, 1826. Children — Sarah,
May 10, 1870; Shelby T., July 15, 1873; Fannie, January 16,
1879.

Amanda M., died March 25, 1878.

Thomas Robertson died February 21, 1884, lived in Frank¬
fort, Kentucky.

10. SARAH, daughter of Thomas and Amanda M. B. Rob¬
ertson, married, February 20, 1889, in Jefferson County, Ken¬
tucky, Reuben Hall, born September 26, 1859.

9. MARTHA JANE, daughter of James B. and Nancy
G. Buford, married Sanford Gaines.

9. HENRY CLAY, son of James B. and Nancy G. Bu¬
ford, married Lucy Ware, of Bourbon County, Kentucky; live
at Smithland, Kentucky.

9. EMELINE TAYLOR, daughter of James B. and Nancy
G. Buford, married, February 26, 1877, Matthew Foster Avis,
Shelby County, Kentucky, born November 20, 1849. Children
— James Paul, September 6, 1882; Hugh Berry, June 17, 1884;
Matthew F. Avis died February 26, 1889; lived in Frankfort,
Kentucky.

9. HARRIET E., daughter of James B. and Nancy G.
Buford, married, December 5, 1871, in Shelby County, Kentucky,

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

William H. Williams. Children — James Minns, December 4,
1872; Emma B., December 17, 1873; and Buford S., February
21, 1875; live in Frankfort, Kentucky.

9. THOMAS LAWSON, son of James B. and Nancy G.
Buford, Ives in Bethlehem, Kentucky.

9. ALICE V., daughter of James B. and Nancy G. Bu¬
ford, married David Crumbaugh, born September 20, 1849. Chil¬
dren — Lena S., March 3, 1876; Mary E., February 3, 1878; Wil¬
liam J., September 20, 1879; Kate J., July 17, 1882; Henne S.,
July 3, 1884; Alice H., June 25, 1886; Henry Buford, October
10, 1889; Lottie J., July 17, 1882; live in Christianburg, Shelby
County, Kentucky.

8. THOMAS MITCHELL, son of Simeon K. and Ann M.
F. Buford, married, January 8, 1846, Emeline Powell, born Feb¬
ruary 14, 1824. Children — Ann Mary, born October 29, 3 847;
William F., September 18, 1851; Emma T., October 22, 1856.
Thomas M. Buford died January 29, 1859. His wife lives in
Bethlehem, Henry County, Ky. William Fisher Buford lives in
Smithland, Kentucky.

9. ANN MARY, daughter of Thomas and Emeline P. Bu¬
ford, married at Bethlehem, Kentucky, November 29, 1866, to
George W. Sewell, born April 1, 1832. Children — Joseph T.,
born December 26, 1867; William F., born February 7, 1870;
Emma Katherine, born August 24, 1876.

9. EMMA T., daughter of Thomas M. and Emeline P. Bu¬
ford, married April 6, 1876, to Charles Owen Wilson of Liv¬
ingston County Kentucky, born October 20, 1848. Children —
John P., born March 20, 1877 ; Mary A., born December 16,
1878; Robert Lee, born September 18, 1880; Lillie J., born
October 20, 1882; Alice B., born March 16, 1885; Martha I.,
born February 20, 1887; Charles M., born October 30, 1888;
Louis E., born April 6, 1891; Albert, born November 25, 1892;
home at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

8. AMBROSE F., son of Simeon K. and Ann Mary F. Bu¬

ford, married in Livingston County, Kentucky, September 7,
1859, to Lucy Ann Powell, born June 14, 1846. Children — lone
Elzada, born January 10, 1865. Ambrose F. Buford died No¬
vember 15, 1865. His wife married, second, - Dupriest,

and lives at Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky.

9. IONE E., daughter of Ambrose F. and Lucy A. P. Bu¬
ford, married in Livingston County, Kentucky, January 12,
1881, to John Thomas Powell, born March 23, 1858. Children —
Eva Bernice, born November 3, 1881 ; William Fisher, born Sep¬
tember 16, 1883; Clarence E, born October 3, 1885; Arlie May,
born September 5, 1887 ; Jessie T, born August 23, 1892 ; home,
Palma, Marshall County, Kentucky.

7. ABRAHAM, son of James and Elizabeth Bramblett
Buford, was born April 13, 1772, in Bedford County, Virginia,
settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, married Mary Moody, who
was born April 5, 1777. In 1833 they moved to Missouri, and
settled near New London. Children — William H., born November

18, 1795; Elizabeth Bramblett (Betty), born March 6, 1797;
James, born December 28, 1798; Thomas, born January 11, 1800;
Alexander, born March 21, 1802, died June 22, 1825; Ambrose,
born February 17, 1804; Polly, born March 18, 1808; Kittie T.,
born January 2, 1810, died April 23, 1840 ; Frances, born Decem¬
ber 11, 1811 ; Abraham, Jr., born December 8, 1813, died October

19, 1894; Amelia, born July 28, 1815; John, born February 10,

1817, died April 23, 1840. Abraham Buford died October 3, 1840.
Mary Moody Buford died March 2, 1853.

8. WILLIAM H., son of Abraham and Mary Moody Buford,
born November 18, 1795, died August 11, 1878. He married
Letitia Stull Hardin, December 8, 1822, who was born January
30, 1802. Children — Mary Susan, born March 6, 1824; Mark
Hardin, born February 13, 1825; William Alexander, born April
28, 1826; John Lewis, born 1827; Kate Williams, born Feb¬
ruary 6, 1830; Sallie Letitia, born November 17, 1833; Eliza

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

LETITIA S., WIFE OF WM. H. BUFORD WM. HENRY BUFORD

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA

Jane, born November 2, 1835; Charles Abraham Wickliffe, born
July 16, 1838; Margaret, John (daughter), born July 17, 1840;
James Thomas, born July 10, 1844. William Henry Buford died
August 11, 1878, and his wife, Letitia Hardin Buford, December
31, 1872.

9. MARY SUSAN, daughter of William H. and Letitia
Hardin Buford, married Judge Stephen V. R. Eliot, March 17,

1857, died August 30, 1875 ; one daughter, Kate Letitia, born May,

1858, died February 5, 1902.

9. MARK HARDIN, son of William H. and Letitia Hardin
Buford, married Belle Mason. Children — Minnie Lee, Cortie,
Julia May.

10. MINNIE LEE, daughter of Mark H. and Belle Mason
Buford, married George Stith, 1893. She died in 1907. Her
husband and two children, Georgia Hardin and James Mark, live
in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

10. CORTIE, daughter of Mark Hardin and Belle Mason
Buford, born in Hannibal, Missouri, July 18, 1870, died and was
buried at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, September 17, 1889.

10. JULIA MAY, daughter of Mark Hardin and Belle
Mason Buford, born in Hannibal, Missouri, August, 1873, mar¬
ried Rod J. Wise, September, 1908 ; home, Lebanon, Kentucky.

Mark Hardin Buford died October 18, 1892.

9. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, son of William Henry and
Letitia Hardin Buford, born April 28, 1826, died February 17,
1885; never married.

9. JOHN LEWIS, son of William Henry and Letitia Hardin
Buford, born in 1827, died December 26, 1830.

9. KATE WILLIAMS, daughter of William Henry and
Letitia Hardin Buford, born in 1830, died November, 1914; not
married.

9. SALLIE LETITIA, daughter of William Henry and
Letitia Hardin Buford, born November 17, 1833, died November
17, 1884, married to Crosby Vaughn.

9. ELIZA JANE, daughter of William Henry and Letitia
Hardin Buford, born November 2, 1835, married John Burke
Dewees, April 6, 1889, died in 1906, had no children. She lives
in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at the age of 88 years and is able
to visit her relatives and friends in different states, and writes to
her friends.

9. CHARLES ABRAHAM W., son of William H. and L. S.
Hardin Buford, married, in 1870, Ellen Layman. Children —
Sarah Letitia, July 30, 1872; Mary Maggie, July 20, 1875; Wil¬
liam Thomas, August 7, 1879; Emily Jane, February 2, 1880.

Charles Abraham W. Buford’s war record: Member of
Company “B” Regiment Sixth Kentucky Infantry, “Orphan
Brigade.” Born July 20, 1838, died May 7, 1920 (C. S. A.).

Ellen Layman Buford died November 5, 1881.

10. SARAH L., daughter of Charles A. W. and Ellen Lay¬
man Buford, married, December 22, 1910, George H. Matthis.
No children. George H. Matthis died November 12, 1919.

10. MARY M., daughter of Charles A. W. and Ellen Lay¬
man Buford, married, January 2, 1894, Horace Howell, of Eliza¬
bethtown, Kentucky. Children — Elizabeth Ellen, married Burton
Barnes, July 24, 1918; William Lynn, married Thomas Peterson;
Charles Buford; Horace, Jr., and Margaret.

10. WILLIAM T., son of Charles A. W. and Ellen Layman
Buford, married, July 15, 1909, Ada Goff, of Hodgenville, Ken¬
tucky. Children — Lawrence Lee, December 31, 1912; Jessie
Goff, May 21, 1922.

10. EMILY J., daughter of Charles A. W. and Ellen L.
Buford, married, January 9, 1906, Emmett J. Peak, of St. John’s,
Kentucky. Children — Emily Jane, Jr., November 4, 1906; Mary
Letitia, July 12, 1908; Russel Paul, December 14, 1910; Abraham
Buford, June 30, 1913; Joseph Marshall, May 26, 1916; Maggie
Lynn, December 3, 1918; John Abel, June 18, 1922.

9. MARGARET J., daughter of William H. and Letitia
S. H. Buford, married, October 2, 1860, John Turner, who

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was born October 18, 1822. Children — Mamie Letitia, Feb¬
ruary 9, 1864, married Jesse D. Pettingill (he died May
24, 1920, leaving no children) ; Thomas, September 27, 1865,
married Josephine Garrett, April 21, 1898. They have six
children — Isabel, July 29, 1899; Robert Hawthorne, Decem¬
ber 18, 1901; Joseph Garrett, November 7, 1903; Margaret
Hardin, December 19, 1905 ; died February, 1907 ; Thomas,
Jr., April 11, 1908; James Hardin, December 12, 1912;
Robert Biggs, December 10, 1866, died July 3, 1872; Sallie Ann,
March 20, 1868, died July 3, 1889; Margaret Hardin, March 15,

1870; William H., January 25, 1873, married Hattie - ,

August, 1914. Children — Lucy Margaret, April 1, 1915; William
H. Jr., April 4, 1918; Nellie, August 4, 1878, died March 11, 1885;
John Edwards, December 11, 1881, married Lillian Ash, April,
1905. Children — Charles Ash, November 7, 1909; Margaret
Gardner, July 4, 1912 ; Bessie, March 28, 1884, died March 6, 1885.

John Turner died May, 1906; his wife, Margaret J. Buford
Turner, died July 28, 1902.

10. MARGARET HARDIN, daughter of John and Mar¬
garet J. Buford Turner, married February 10, 1902, Richard Ed¬
ward McWilliams. Children — Richard E. Jr., August 11, 1903;
Margaret Buford, February 28, 1906.

Richard E. McWilliams owns a fine farm along the Alabama
River, Wilcox County, and raises cotton and stock. The children
are attending high school at Mobile, Alabama. Residence, Cam¬
den, Alabama.

9. JAMES THOMAS, son of William Henry and Letitia
Hardin Buford, took an active part in the Civil War; fought at
Ft. Donaldson; was captured and died of brain fever while in
prison at Indianapolis, Indiana, March, 1862, at only sixteen years
of age.

8. ELIZABETH BRAMBLETT (Betty), daughter of
Abraham and Mary Moody Buford, married John Williams, had
one son, Edwin.

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MARGARET BUFORD McWILLIAMS JANE BUFORD DEWEES, LETITIA BUFORD VAUGHN

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9 3

8. THOMAS, son of Abraham and Mary Moody Buford,
married Betty Shropshire, who was born December 8, 1815.
Children — Mary Susan; Jane Colbert; Ambrose, born January
25, 1826; Kitty, died young; James and Penelope, twines, died
at ten years of age; Margaret Elizabeth, died at eighteen, un¬
married; Frances Anderson, born October 3, 1833; Columbia
Thomas, born September 4, 1838 ; Henry Clay, born July 6, 1841 ;
Joseph Shropshire, killed at the age of sixteen in the Civil War;
and one not named died in infancy.

9. MARY SUSAN, daughter of Thomas and Betty Shrop¬
shire Buford, married Dr. Henry Raymond. Daughter — Mary
Elizabeth, who married Samuel Haggleden, died, leaving four
children, one named Raymond.

9. JANE COLBERT, daughter of Thomas and Betty Shrop¬
shire Buford, married Simon Higgins. They have fourteen chil¬
dren.

9. AMBROSE, son of Thomas and Betty Shropshire Bu¬
ford, born January 25, 1826, married, January 19, 1850, Marga¬
ret Miller Anderson, born December 7, 1832, daughter of Col.
Hall Anderson, he a son of William Anderson. Children — Hall A.,
born February 12, 1851; Clayton A., born March 18, 1854; Emily
Elizabeth, born November 4, 1857; Carrie Cowan, born August
24, 1860; Clifton R., born June 20, 1862; Mary A., born May 30,
1871 ; home, Covington, Kentucky.

10. HALL A., son of Ambrose and Margaret M. A. Buford,
married Sarah McClair. No children.

10. CLAYTON A., son of Ambrose and Margaret M. A.
Buford, married Lida Taliaferro. Children — Kittie, born Decem¬
ber 10, 1884; Clifford, born July 31, 1887, died February, 1888;
Stanley, born August 21, 1889. Clifford A. Buford died August
21, 1889.

10. EMILY E., daughter of Ambrose and Margaret M. A.
Buford, married, first, V. Shinkle, July 5, 1882. Children — V.
Mantel, born May 22, 1886. Emily E. married for second hus-

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band, F. L. Bristo, June 24, 1891. Child — Minta Guy, born April
5, 1892.

10. CARRIE COWAN, daughter of Ambrose and Margaret
M. A. Buford, married, December 10, 1879, 0. R. Taylor. Children
— Buford, born May 28, 1882.

10. CLIFTON R., son of Ambrose and Margaret M. A. Bu¬
ford, married Mary Thornton.

10. MARY A., daughter of Ambrose and Margaret M. A.
Buford, married, November 25, 1896, George Alexander. They
live in Paris, Kentucky.

9. MARGARET, daughter of Thomas and Betsy Shrop¬
shire Buford, married Patrick Gormley; they have six children;
Daughter, Mary, married - Morgan, Crab Orchard, Ken¬

tucky.

9. FRANCES ANDERSON, daughter of Thomas and Betsy
S. Buford, married, October 30, 1850, Edward Donnely. Children
— Rose Elizabeth, born October 21, 1851 (died) ; Henry Mitchell,
November 27, 1852; Ephraim Joseph Thomas, August 16, 1854;
Eugene Columbia, October 30, 1855, and Ida Catherine, January
27, 1861.

10. HENRY M., son of Edward and Frances A. B. Don¬
nely, married. No children.

10. IDA C., daughter of Edward and Frances A. B. Don¬
nely, married - Reid. Children — Edward Donnely, Feb¬

ruary 21, 1887 ; Esther Eugenia, November 7, 1895.

9. COLUMBIA, daughter of Thomas and Betty S. Buford,
married Dr. C. C. Graham. Son, Joseph Buford, born July 15,
1865.

Columbia B. Graham died October 1, 1865.

10. JOSEPH BUFORD, son of Dr. C. C. and Columbia B.
Graham, married Mary Maher, Lexington, Missouri.

9. THOMAS, son of Thomas and Betsy S. Buford, married,
September 15, 1864, Kittie Livingston, who was born March 23,
1840. Children — Maggie M., born September 8, 1865; Betty,

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March 4, 1868, died October 9, 1880; and John William, July 15,
1871.

Thomas Buford died April 19, 1894. Kittie L. Buford died
November 5, 1894.

10. MAGGIE M., daughter of Thomas and Kittie Living¬
ston Buford, married, June 11, 1885, William D. Hibben. Child —
Aileen, born August 13, 1886.

10. JOHN WILLIAM, son of Thomas and Kittie L. Buford,
married, January 15, 1896, Allie Willis.

9. HENRY CLAY, son of Thomas and Betsy S. Buford,
married, first Nannie Williams, Hustonville, Kentucky, January
9, 1866, who died May 11, 1869. Henry Clay married, second,
Mary J. Kennedy, daughter of Peter and Clara Kennedy, of
Crab Orchard, Kentucky, May 31, 1870. Children — Bessie, born
in Kentucky, August 6, 1871 ; Thomas K., born in Kentucky,
January 12, 1873 ; Peter Kennedy, born in Kentucky, November
11, 1874; Clara L., October 27, 1874, lives at Woodland, Califor¬
nia; Fannie M., July 26, 1878; and Mary J., at Peabody, Kansas,
October 25, 1881.

Mary Kennedy Buford died November 26, 1881. Henry Clay
Buford married, third, November 8, 1883, Martha Berry, at Win¬
field, Kansas, was born October 28, 1844, Washington County,
Virginia. Children — Chelsea (died) ; Clay, born August 23,
1886. He now resides at Phoenix, Arizona.

10. THOMAS K., son of Henry Clay and Mary J. Kennedy
Buford, married October 18, 1893, Mary E. Jubb. at Sacramento,
California, where he resides, an employee of Southern Pacific
Railroad. Child — Olive, born February 14, 1895.

10. FANNIE M., daughter of Henry Clay and Mary J. K.
Buford, married, December 31, 1895, at Phoenix, Arizona, Wil¬
liam E. Rhodes. They reside at Phoenix, Arizona.

8. ALEXANDER, Son of Abraham and Mary Moody Bu¬
ford, married Miss Slaughter. Children — William M., born May
24, 1834; Lysander Hord, and Catherine.

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9. WILLIAM M., son of Alexander and - Slaughter

Buford, married, March 30, 1859, to Mary Walker Twyman,
daughter of Joel and Margaret K. Buford Twyman. Children —
John, born May 3, 1860; Emma, born September 28, 1862; Lys-
ander Hord (Hooker), born June 14, 1864; William H., born Oc¬
tober 3, 1866; Margaret (Maggie), born March 14, 1869; Lula,
born July 4, 1871; Fannie, born May 21, 1875.

William M. Buford died October 26, 1885. Mary Walker
Twyman Buford, his wife, died January 26, 1899.

10. EMMA, daughter of William M. and Mary Walker
Twyman Buford, married Thomas Wood, November 20, 1882.
Children — William R., born October 3, 1883; Frank, born October
8, 188J, died November 8, 1900.

11. WILLIAM R., son of Thomas J. and Emma Buford
Wood, married Lottie Paris, June 15, 1906. Child — Nadine, born
March 14, 1908.

10. WILLIAM H., son of William M. and Mary Walker
Twyman Buford, married, first, Lola V. Sharp, October 3, 1902 ;
married for second wife, Evolyn T. Swan. Child — Mary Grace,
born July 16, 1911.

William H. Buford died January 19, 1916.

10. MAGGIE, daughter of William M. and Mary Walker
Twyman Buford, married Edwin Threlkeld, January 2, 1894.
One child, Elmer Pollard, born August 3, 1896, residence, Shelby-
ville, Mo.

11. ELMER POLLARD, son of Edwin and Maggie Buford
Threlkeld, married Jennie M. Wood, February 18, 1914. Child —
Elizabeth Lynn, born July, 1916.

10. LULA, daughter of William M. and Mary W. T. Bu¬
ford, married Thomas S. Ballard, February 19, 1891.

10. FANNIE, daughter of William and Mary W. T. Buford,
married Jesse Ziegler, December 21, 1904.

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9. CATHERINE, daughter of Alexander and -

Slaughter Buford, married James Caldwell Children — Alex,
Maria, Lysander, Flury Lee, Mary, Mattie and Henry.

10. MARY, daughter of James and Catherine Buford Cald¬
well, married William Ellis; Home, Emdon, Missouri. Sons —
Burton and Harry.

10. MATTIE, daughter of James and Catherine Buford
Caldwell, born June 8, 1871, married Rev. George W. Humphrey,
Baptist Minister, June 26, 1884; home, Maywood, Missouri.
Children — Alma Lee, Clifford H., George Caldwell, Henry Wil¬
liam Grady and Benjamin Carson.

11. ALMA LEE, daughter of George W. and Mattie C.
Humphrey, born March 23, 1885, married Ray P. Gardner, June
28, 1921 ; home, Kirksville, Mo. One child.

11. CLIFFORD H., born August 15, 1886, married Julia
Higgins, September 28, 1921 ; son, George III, born August, 1922.
Clifford is an ordained Baptist Preacher, and has a good pastorate
of a church in Ft. Worth, Texas. He is a graduate of William
Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri.

11. GEORGE CALDWELL, born January 10, 1902, grad¬
uated from LaGrange Baptist College, LaGrange, Missouri, May,
1923. He has care of Baptist Churches that give him all-time
work; was ordained to the Baptist Ministry July 8, 1923, at the
South Union Baptist Church, Maywood, Missouri. He is in Bay¬
lor University, Waco, Texas.

11. HENRY WILLIAM GRADY, born May 16, 1904, is
teaching, also, in school at LaGrange College.

11. BENJAMIN CARSON, born September 7, 1909, young¬
est son of Rev. G. W. and Mattie C. Humphrey.

8. FRANCES, daughter of Abraham and Mary Moody Bu¬
ford, married Thomas Prudum.

8. ABRAHAM, JR., son of Abraham and Mary Moody Bu¬
ford, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and went with his
brother James to Hannibal, Missouri, in 1847, married, August

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6, 1847, Eliza, daughter of Jacob Johnson, of Independence, Mis¬
souri. Children — James William, born February 19, 1849; Mary
Dorothy, born May 9, 1851, and died February 13, 1855; John,
born June 20, 1853; Rowena, born June 5, 1855; Elizabeth, born
March 11, 1858, died October 19, 1394. Eliza J. Buford died No¬
vember 11, 1860. and Abraham Jr. married, second, - .

Children — Robert Henry, born October 17, 1862; Edward, born
September 20, 1864, and Abraham 3rd.

9. JAMES W., son of Abraham, Jr., and Eliza J. Buford,
married, June 2, 1872, Sarah Josephine, daughter of Lou and
Eliza Moore, who was born November 4, 1857. Children — Tod A.,
born April 29, 1873, John R., born Dec. 3, 1874; William L., born
October 5, 1876; Ina, born February 19, 1878; Minnie, born Sep¬
tember 3, 1880; Cleveland, born February 10, 1882; Eddie Lou,
born February 29, 1885. Sarah Josephine Buford died August
13, 1892, in Camden, Missouri, and James W. married, December
9, 1895, his second wife, Theodosia Ernest, daughter of John and
Ezilpha Starkes, who was born October 12, 1873, residence, Cli¬
max Springs, Missouri.

10. TOD A., son of James W. and Sarah Josephine Buford,
is married, has children and lives in Kansas City, Missouri.

10. INA, daughter of James W. and Sarah Josephine Bu¬
ford, married William J. Starkes, January 1, 1896, son of John
and Ezilpha Starkes.

9. JOHN, son of Abraham, Jr., and Eliza J. Buford, mar¬
ried, May 30, 1881, to Mary E. Twyman, daughter of Simeon S.
Twyman. Children — Clarence W., born February 3, 1882, died
August 24, 1885; Romena May, born November 26, 1883, mar¬
ried Mr. Furguson. Residence, Kansas City, Missouri.

9. ROWENA, daughter of Abraham, Jr., and Eliza J. Bu¬
ford, married, October 14, 1874, to James F. Brown. Children —
O. F., born August 6, 1875; Onie M., born February 5, 1883, died
February 22, 1883; James J., born July 25, 1893.

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10. 0. F., son of James F. and Rowena Buford Brown, mar¬

ried Ella Williams, born November 20, 1877.

9. Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham, Jr., and Eliza J. Bu¬
ford, married John Colon Blakeley. Children — Edna Gertrude,
born February 24, 1878, died July 22, 1878; Eliza Frances, born
September 23, 1880; Suo 0., born March 19, 1882; John C. Blake¬
ley died November 4, 1896, residence, Newmarket, Platte County,
Missouri.

8. AMELIA, daughter of Abraham and Mary Moody Bu¬
ford, married Thomas Reid ; their daughter, Kate, married - -

Quinn, home, Allegan, Michigan.

7. AMBROSE, sen of James and Elizabeth Bramblett Bu¬
ford, married Nancy Kirtley, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth
Kirtley, of Orange County, Virginia, and sister of Frances
Walker, who married William, son of Simeon Buford; moved
from Kentucky to Missouri in 1827. He was killed by lightning
in 1834 ; son, Sinclair Kirtley lived at Napa, California, and had
a daughter, Maude, who married - Baxter, and died in 1901.

7. HENRY, son of James and Elizabeth Bramblett Buford,
moved from Buford Station, Virginia, in 1800, to Mount Vernon,
Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Terrill, of Crab Orchard, Ken¬
tucky. Children — Mary, Martha and Alfred Welsh. He was born
July 1, 1809. Henry Buford died young and his children were
brought to Kentucky and educated by his mother’s family, Oliver
Terrill and Tolls Terrill, uncles of Alfred. They were men of
prominence in that section of Kentucky.

8. MARY, daughter of Henry and Mary Buford, married
John A. Moore of Lancaster, Kentucky. He was a successful
lawyer, was Solicitor General of the state, and later United States
Senator. There were several children — John, Alfred and Lucy,
lived to be grown, but whereabouts of their descendants unknown

8. MARTHA, daughter of Henry and Mary Terrill Buford,
married William Moore, brother of John A. Children — Unknown.

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8. ALFRED WELSH, son of Henry and Mary Terrill Bu¬
ford, was born in 1809. He was educated at Center College, Dan¬
ville, Kentucky, in the graduating class with John C. Brecken-
ridge. The relatives of Alfred W. Buford expected him to enter
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. This he did not feel
impressed to do. Acting upon the advice of his brother-in-law,
John A. Moore, he took up the study of law. Not feeling inspired
by the practice of law, he decided to move to Georgia about 1832,
carrying a letter of recommendation from Governor Letcher of
Kentucky, to Governor Lumpkin of Georgia. Upon this recom¬
mendation he was placed in charge of one of the State Schools.
He continued in this work for many years, and in connection with
preaching, his life work, was active in educational affairs
throughout a long life.

Alfred W. Buford was married to Sarah Emolin Jackson,
daughter of Andrew Woody and Sally Haynes Jackson of Ogle¬
thorpe County, Georgia, in 1838. Her grandfather and Stone-
wall’s grandfather were the same man.

Soon after marriage he moved to East Tennessee, where the
family owned large property. During his stay of eight years in
Tennessee he spent his time in teaching and preaching the gospel,
having united with the Baptist Church. Being urged by outside
influences and leadings, and impressed by the need of the com¬
munity, he took on, in connection with his other work, that of the
ministry. Anxious, as he said, “Like Paul, to give a free gospel
to a needy people,” he spent the remainder of his life preaching
the gospel without charges, and organizing churches in destitute
fields. He was one of the pioneers of Christian work, and almost
the first man in this section to preach the doctrine of Missions.
Receiving nothing for his own service, he always asked a contri¬
bution for Missions.

Alfred W. Buford, with his family, moved to Bartow County,
Georgia, in 1847, to gain school advantages for his children. Here
he continued his work of the ministry in connection with large

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farming interests. His life, from this time to the end, was given
to the upbuilding of churches, and to educational advancements,
doing much traveling in the interest of endowing colleges, serving
on educational boards, etc., and nearly always keeping some boy
other than his own in school, for he never failed to remember the
help received during his own orphanhood, and which he returned
many fold.

The children of this union were — Cyrena, Sarah Elizabeth,
Alfred Jackson, Martha Eliza, Andrew Marshall, Marion, Edward
Franklin and Oliver Henry.

Alfred Welsh Buford died July 17, 1879, at Cartersville,
Georgia, full of years of good works. Sarah Emolin, wife of Al¬
fred W. Buford, died January, 1908, having spent a long life of
serving God, her family and her fellowmen.

9. CYRENA, daughter of Alfred Welsh and Sarah Emolin
Jackson Buford, born, 1840, was married to Albert Eakin, in 1865,
of Shelbyville, Tennessee. One child living — Liela Buford, was
born in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Cyrena Buford Eakin died in 1880.

10. LIELA BUFORD EAKIN was married to John Marcy
Overall in 1892, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Children — Marion
Buford, John Marcy, Jr., and Albert Eakin. These all live in
Chattanooga, Tennessee.

9. SARAH ELIZABETH, daughter of Alfred Welsh and
Sarah Emolin Jackson Buford, born in 1842, married in 1866, to
Joel Garnette Greene, son of Dr. Willis Greene and Anne Andrews
Greene, of LaGrange, Georgia. Children — Lillian Andrews, Al¬
ford Buford, Mary Haynes and Joel Garnette, Jr.

10. LILLIAN ANDREWS, daughter of Sarah Elizabeth
and Joel Garnette Greene, Sr., is a teacher and lives in Carters¬
ville, Georgia.

10. ALFRED BUFORD, son of Sarah Elizabeth and Joel
Garnette Green, Sr., was married to Ida Vernon in 1914. No

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children. He was a physician and lived in Cartersville, Georgia.
He died suddenly, March 15, 1924.

10. MARY HAYNES, daughter of Sarah Elizabeth and
Joel Garnette Greene, Sr., was married in 1898 to C. N. Waits of
Rockmart, Georgia. Children — Sarah, Hattie and Margaret.
Mary Greene Waits died in 1912.

10. JOEL GARNETTE, JR., son of Sarah Elizabeth and
Joel Garnette Greene, Sr., married Geneva Attaway in 1904. One
child — Marion Garnette, in school now (1924) at Sullens College,
Bristol, Virginia.

Joel Garnette Greene, Sr., died in 1912. Sarah Elizabeth
Buford Greene died in Cartersville, Georgia, in 1890.

ALFRED JACKSON, son of Alfred Welsh and Sarah Emolin
Jackson Buford, born October 15, 1844, was married December
13, 1871, to Ella M Kimeabrew, daughter of Dr. William Kimea-
brew and Janie Louise Kimeabrew. Children — Alfred Henry,
Edward Langdon, Alberta Liela, Andrew William, Louis Jackson,
Cyrena Emolin and Joel Garnette. Alfred Jackson Buford was
fifteen years old when he enlisted in the Confederate States Army
and fought through the entire four years, serving both the Vir¬
ginia and Tennessee Armies.

A number of years after the Civil War, he enlisted as a min¬
ister of God and did much service both in Georgia and Alabama
as a preacher of the gospel. He died in 1912.

10. ALFRED HENRY, son of Alfred Jackson and Ella K.
Buford, was married to Myra Middleton in 1912. One child liv¬
ing — Sarah Violet Buford. Alfred Henry Buford and family
are living in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

11. SARAH VIOLET, daughter of Alfred Henry and Myra
Middleton Buford, was married to J. W. Everette in 1920. One
child — John Everette, lives in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

10. EDWARD LANGDON, son of Alfred Jackson and Ella
K. Buford, died in boyhood.

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10. ALBERTIA LIELA, daughter of Alfred Jackson and
Ella K. Buford, was married in 1912 to William Rowland.
Children — Buford, Ella and Eliza, live in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

10 ANDREW WILLIAM, son of Alfred Jackson and Ella
K. Buford, married Grace Gilreath in 1915. One child — James
Alfred Buford, lives in Cartersville, Georgia.

10. LONIS JACKSON, son of Alfred Jackson and Ella K.
Buford, is unmarried, lives near Cartersville, Georgia.

10. CYRENA EMOLIN, daughter of Alfred Jackson and
Ella K. Buford, was married to Thomas W. Simpson of Carters¬
ville, Georgia, in 1909. Children — Eleanor and Thomas W. Jr.,
live in Cartersville, Georgia.

10. JOEL GARNETTE, son of Alfred Jackson and Ella K.
Buford, married Maude Stewart, have no children, live in Greer,
South Carolina.

9. MARTHA ELIZA, daughter of Alfred Welsh and Sarah
Emolin Jackson Buford, born in December, 1846, married James
C. Milam in 1886, of Cartersville, Georgia. No children. “Mattie’*
B. Milam died in 1893.

9. ANDREW MARSHALL, son of Alfred Welsh and Sarah
Emolin Jackson Buford, born February 27, 1850, a young man
of great promise, died in Texas in June, 1880. Unmarried.

9. MARION, daughter of Alfred Welsh and Sarah Emolin
Jackson Buford, born in October, 1851, married Dr. Joel G.
Greene, of Cartersville, Georgia. No children. Dr. Greene died
in 1906.

9. EDWARD FRANKLIN, son of Alfred Welsh and Sarah
Emolin Jackson Buford, born October, 1853, died October, 1868.

9. OLIVER HENRY, son of Alfred Welsh and Sarah Emo¬
lin Jackson Buford, born in September, 1858, was a physician of
several years active practice. Graduated in medicine in Augusta,
Georgia, afterward taking post graduate courses in New York
and Philadelphia. He served as Surgeon in the United States
Army during the Spanish-American War. He served under

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DR. OLIVER HENRY BUFORD. SURGEON. U. S. A.

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Goethals and Goegas, with whom he was intimately associated.
Dr. Buford’s health was impaired by malaria contracted during
the war, from which he never recovered, and died in the prime of
life, in 1909, unmarried. His was an unselfish Christian life, full
of promise.

7. JUDITH, daughter of James and Elizabeth Bramblett
Buford, married March 1, 1787, to Thomas Scruggs.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of James and Elizabeth Bram¬
blett Buford, married in 1774, to William Scruggs.

7. FRANCES, daughter of James and Elizabeth Bramblett
Buford, married her cousin, Thomas Buford, son of William and
Mary Welsh Buford (see William Buford below) .

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BUFORD CHAPTER, D. A. R., HUNTINGTON, W. VA.

The Chapter Home was named for William Early Buford; is a log cabin
with lovely furniture of antique and mahogany.

CHAPTER VII

6 ELIZABETH BUFORD CALLOWAY
6 CAPTAIN WILLIAM EARLY AND MARY WELSH

6. ELIZABETH, daughter of John and Judith Early Bu¬
ford, probably married a Calloway. Frequent mention is found
of “Sister Elizabeth Calloway” in her brother’s letters.

6. CAPTAIN WILLIAM EARLY, son of John and Judith
Early Buford, born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1745, mar¬
ried Mary Welsh (believed to be daughter of Nicholas Welsh of
Bedford County). Children — Judith; Thomas, born 1776; Polly;
Elizabeth, born 1781; Frances; Amelia, and William. His name
appears in Bedford County, Virginia, records, 1771-1788. He
probably went to Kentucky about the latter date, settled in Lin¬
coln County (now Garrard), and was living there, 1802-1805.
He moved to Rockcastle County in 1805, and was living there in
1814. We have no accurate date of his death, but his last words
were, “I have fought a good fight.” The records of the Pension
office show that William Buford (also borne as Bluford and Blew-
ford), served as a private in Captain Samuel Booker’s company,
5th and 11th regiments, commanded by Colonel William Russell,
formerly known as Captain Edwin Hull’s company, 15th Virginia
Battalion, commanded by Colonel James Innes, Revolutionary
War. He enlisted December 17, 1776, to serve three years, and
his name last appears on the roll for December, 1779, which bears
the remark, “Honorably discharged December 2.” Afterward
was made captain of the 15th Regiment. (Life Book of Captain
Abner Baker, speaks of William Buford as “Captain Buford,”
as being his father-in-law; also a little book of the “Officers of
Revolution of Virginia mentions all six sons of John and Judith
Early Buford as officers in Revolution) .

Captain William E. Buford’s home grew into a magnificent
estate in the heart of Kentucky’s most beautiful country.

7. JUDITH, daughter of William and Mary Welsh Buford,

married, first, Thomas Scruggs, and second, - Noel. Wil-

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liam Buford speaks of her as “My daughter Judith Noel,” in
writing from Kentucky in 1809.

7. THOMAS, son of William and Mary Welsh Buford, born
in Bedford County, Virginia, 1776, married, December 21, 1797,
to Frances Buford, daughter of James and Elizabeth Bramblett
Buford, wTho was born in 1779 (see James above). Children —
William, born September 27, 1798, never married, died at Lan¬
caster, Kentucky, May 24, 1864; Eliza, born May 12, 1800;
Thomas Jefferson, born January 22, 1802; Mary (Polly), born
June 12, 1804, never married, died May 4, 1882; Chapman, born
September 27, 1806, died June, 1807 ; Emily Thomas, born Janu¬
ary 10, 1809; Luther, born 1812; James, born November 26,
1815; John Tilford, born 1818, died 1825; Alexander Bryan,
born October 31, 1820.

Thomas Buford went with his father to Kentucky about 1788,
and settled in Lincoln County near the present town of Lancaster.
He was Sheriff of Garrard County for several years, and held
other local trusts. He was a member of Kentucky Legislature
1806-1809, State Senate, 1809. During the War of 1812 he was
a deputy quartermaster of the Northern Army. He died in 1863.

8. ELIZA, daughter of Thomas and Frances Buford, mar¬
ried Mr Hammond, of Madison County, Kentucky. They had
several children.

8. THOMAS JEFFERSON, son of Thomas and Frances
Buford, married Mrs. Kanifax. Children, seven — William L.,
Alex, Tom, and Charles, live in Iowa. Thomas Jefferson was in
the Kentucky Legislature from Harlem County in 1835, from
Laurel County in 1838-43. He died in 1862.

9. WILLIAM L., son of Thomas Jefferson Buford, married
Sarah Miles. Children — William Brown, Mary E., Frank and
Susan. They live in Jessamine County.

8. EMILY THOMAS, daughter of Thomas and Frances
Buford, married Granville Love. Children — Alexander (died),
Thomas and Mary. Emily Buford Love died 1840.

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9. THOMAS, son of Granville and Emily Buford Love,
lives in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

9. MARY, daughter of Granville and Emily Love, married
John Davis. No children. Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

8. LUTHER, son of Thomas and Frances Buford, married
Mrs. Morrison. No children. Dr. Luther Buford graduated from
the Philadelphia Medical College, with high honors, practiced
medicine in Mt. Sterling for a number of years, where he died
in 1881.

8. JAMES, son of Thomas and Frances Buford, married, in
1844, Elizabeth Gates, of Lincoln County, Kentucky. Children —
Mary Frances, 1846; Emily Thomas, 1849; Elizabeth Shouse,
1853; James L., 1856, and Jockil M., 1860.

9. MARY FRANCES, daughter of James and Elizabeth G.
Buford, married, in 1864, W. J. Wilmore, of Jessamine County,
Kentucky. Daughter — Marianil.

9. EMILY T., daughter of James and Elizabeth G. Buford,
married J. W. Cook, of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Children —
J. Gates, Elizabeth, Buford and Robert.

9. ELIZABETH S., daughter of James and Elizabeth G.
Buford, married T. T. Sparks, of Jessamine County. Children —
Isaac, Tillman, Ellen and Elizabeth. They live in Kansas City,
Missouri.

9. JAMES L., son of James and Elizabeth G. Buford, mar¬
ried - Butner, of Madison County. Daughter, Elizabeth Bu¬

ford. Home, Kansas City, Missouri.

9. JOCKIL M., daughter of James and Elizabeth G. Bu¬
ford, married Joel E. Gates. Home, St. Joseph, Missouri.

7. POLLY, daughter of William E. and Mary Welsh Bu¬
ford, married Elijah Kirtley. Son, William, lives at Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky. (See Kirtley, under Frances, daughter of John and
Judith Buford) .

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of William Early and Mary
Welsh Buford, was born November 15, 1781, married to Captain

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Abner Baker, October, 1796, in Lincoln County, Kentucky. He
was born February 18, 1775. Children, fifteen — Caleb H., born
February 18, 1799; William J., December 26, 1800; Leonidas W.,
September 15, 1802; Mary (Polly), March 22, 1805; Almira, June
3, 1807; Lucretius, Oct. 15, 1809; Harvey, April 3, 1811; Abner,
Jr., November 26, 1813; Elizabeth Buford, January 26, 1815;
Catherine, February 22, 1817; America, November 29, 1819;
Patsy, August, 1821 ; Frances Ann, April 21, 1823; Harriet, Sep¬
tember 4, 1825. One died in infancy.

Elizabeth Buford Baker departed this life January 11, 1826.
She gave the strongest assurance of her preparation for the en¬
joyment of eternal happiness. Her last words were:

“My life, if Thou preserve my life, my sacrifice shall be,

And death, if death must be my doom, shall join my soul to Thee/’

Rev. Elisha W. Bowman preached the funeral sermon, taking
his text from Isaiah, 25th chapter, 7th and 8th verses.

Dr. Abner Baker’s second marriage was to Sarah, daughter
of Stephen Giles and Betsy P. Letcher, who was a sister of Gov¬
ernor Robert P. Letcher, of Kentucky, Tuesday, Septem¬
ber 2, 1828. She was born September 4, 1783. He died January
6, 1861. Abner Baker was the youngest son of Caleb Baker, and
was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1775. Caleb
and two brothers, Samuel and Andrew, emigrated from England
early in the Eighteenth century, to Pennsylvania. They were
Artisans, commissioned by the king to manufacture and supply
arms to the colonies, which they did until the Revolution, when
they turned their establishment over to the Whigs. Caleb after¬
ward settled in Prince Edward County.

The following was taken from Dr. Abner Baker’s Life His¬
tory: “He was raised in the Presbyterian faith, under the aus¬
pices of religious, moral and exemplary parents; emigrated to
Kentucky in 1795; settled in Lancaster, now Garrard County,
when twenty years of age. At the age of fifteen I determined to
reach out and beyond the common school, appreciating the great

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advantage derived from higher education. With the study of
best books and helpful teachers, and coming under the influence,
and with the association and assistance of one brother, William
Baker, who had received a liberal education at Hamden and Sid¬
ney College, Virginia, and on whom the degree of A. B. was con¬
ferred in 1786, with his full library, I obtained a fine education,
which was the commencement of my public career. Possessing
practical qualifications now, as a passport upon the ‘theatre of
life' on which I had volunteered, I framed an Article in my private
Constitution that should ever be my aid and aim and motto for
life : ‘Honor, Truth and Justice.’

“In 1796 I began a life of public service to my country, was
made chief clerk of Garrard County, Kentucky, and held that
office until 1802. In the latter part of 1803 I was elected to the
Legislature without my consent or knowledge. In 1805 was re-
elected to the Legislature without a dissenting voice. During
this continued term of office, also in the year 1803,
the Governor of Kentucky issued his proclamation requiring two
companies from Garrard County (volunteers preferred) to stand
in readiness as a needed army for the New Orleans expedition.
Abner Baker was appointed Captain of the Command of Light
Infantry, consisting of the best militia of the county. He was
held in reserve until all war questions and disputes of the War
of 1812 were amicably adjusted and settled. In 1807 I was
appointed to the County and Circuit Court of Clay County, Ken¬
tucky, and remained Judge many years, until 1826.” In 1826 he
made the statement at Clay County Court House that he had
served his country publicly and patriotically for twenty-nine
years. The War Department states he sent his substitute to the
Mexican War.

Having acquired a knowledge of the course of “Doctor of
Medicine” he idministered to suffering humanity all about him,
therefore he enjoyed the distinction of both Doctor and Captain.
This was taken from his “Life’s History,” written by himself

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many years before he died. Also the facts may be gained from
the records of Court at Lancaster Court House, Kentucky.

8. CALEB H., son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth Buford
Baker, married, first, Eliza Hendricks of Virginia, one daughter,
Cash. Second wife, Mary Park. Children — Belle, Minerva,
Malinda, Mary and White. Married, for third wife, Mrs. Betsy
Davis.

8. DR. WILLIAM J., son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, married Mary Cox. Home, Knoxville, Tenn. No
children.

8. DR. LEONADUS, son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, married Susan Park. Children — Park, Leonadus
and Elizabeth. Home, Knoxville, Tenn.

8. MARY (Polly), daughter of Captain Abner and Eliza¬
beth Buford Baker, born March 22, 1805, died September 6, 1879,
married Daniel Bates, who was born December 10, 1787, and died
September 14, 1844. Children — Joel, born in 1827 ; Elizabeth,
November 2, 1830, died March 2, 1839; John, February 4, 1834,
died January 19, 1848, and Mary Catherine, 1840, died March
17, 1865.

The first member of the Bates family of which we know
came from Northumberland County, England, as early as the
fourteenth century. Some went to Lydel, Kent County, England,
thence to Massachusetts and the New England States, in 1635.

Robert Bates, our ancestor, was Vice Master of Oxford, Eng¬
land. He had a daughter named Catherine, who married Rev.
Philip Mallory. Rev. Philip Mallory, with his wife’s relatives,
the Bateses, all settled in Virginia. Later their descendants’ chil¬
dren, Daniel and John Bates, who were engaged in the manufac¬
ture of salt, came to Kentucky and settled in Garrard County.
There they manufactured salt to such an extent that it was
deemed necessary by General Grant during the Civil War to de¬
stroy the wells in order to cut off the rebels’ supply. Before this
act, wagons were sent from Texas for this salt.

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Both Daniel and John Bates were splendid business men and
left large tracts of land to Mary Catherine, their daughter and
niece. Mary Catherine Bates was a noted belle of Kentucky, and
it was said when she made a visit to Richmond the whole town
turned out to see her coach and four horses driven through the
streets. Her generosity to her less fortunate friends, her cour¬
age and loyalty, were her chief characteristics.

9. MARY CATHERINE, daughter of Daniel and Mary
Baker Bates, married James T. Shackelford, of Richmond, Ken¬
tucky,. in 1860. They had two children, only one living — Daniel
Bates, born April 4, 1862.

10. DANIEL BATES, son of James T. and Mary Catherine
Bates Shackelford, married, in 1888, Callie Chenault, who was
born in 1869, daughter of William. 0. and Callie Miller Chenault.
Both are old and well-known families of Kentucky. Daniel Bates
Shackelford is now engaged in developing the land his grand¬
father settled on. They have three daughters — Mary Bates, born
September 9, 1890; Callie Miller, July 23, 1893, and Elizabeth,
?????, 1894.

11. MARY BATES, daughter of Daniel Bates and Callie
Chenault Shackelford, married Warren Jackson, in 1910. One
child — Caledonia, born August 23, 1916. Home, Greenville,
Mississippi.

11. CALLIE MILLER, daughter of Daniel Bates and Callie
Chenault Shackelford, married Thomas A. Baldwin in 1922. No
children. Home, Richmond, Kentucky.

11. ELIZABETH, daughter of Daniel Bates and Callie
Chenault Shackelford, married Bhilip Frear, in 1917. One child
— Betsy Bates, born May 6, 1918.

8. ALMIRA JANE, daughter of Captain Abner and Eliza¬
beth Buford Baker, died at the age of 86 years at Carlinville,
Illinois, unmarried and was taken to Lancaster, Kentucky, for
burial.

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MARY CATHERINE BATES SHACKELFORD

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8. LUCRETIUS, son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, born October 15, 1809, and died November 26,
1891, married, first, Nancy Route, of Garrard County, Kentucky.
Children — Mary Elizabeth, born May 1, 1838, died June 18,- 1923 ;
Frances, born January 9, 1840, died March 4, 1841, and Nancy
Route, born October 17, 1845, died July 21, 1846. Married, for
second wife, Lydia Montgomery, January 19, 1847, who was born
November 15, 1816, died November 21, 1874. Children — Minna,
born February 7, 1848; William J., July 7, 1849; Alice, June 20,
1851, died May 26, 1923 ; Lydia Montgomery, May 18, 1854, died
February 17, 1923; Katheryn, June 7, 1858.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Lucretius and Nancy
Route Baker, was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, May 1, 1838;
moved with her father to Missouri in 1854 ; was married to Henry
Young Field, of Sedalia, Missouri, December 1, 1858. Eight
children — Nancy, born June 20, 1860 (died in infancy) ; Lucretia,
January 1, 1862; William Hill, September 2, 1864, died October
17, 1879; John Roberts, November 11, 1866; Nell, September 21,
1868, died October 17, 1884; Allie, October 1, 1870; Edmonia,
June 21, 1872; Janie, October 11, 1874.

10. LUCRETIA, daughter of Henry Young and Mary E.
Baker Field, married James S. Davis in 1884, died in 1891. Four
children— Wentworth, Nell Field, Marmaduke and Early.

11. WENTWORTH, son of James S. and Lucretia Field
Davis, married and had three children — Glen, Thomas and Dean.

11. NELL FIELD, daughter of James S. and Lucretia
Field Davis, married James A. Brown in 1916. No children.

11. MARMADUKE, son of James S. and Lucretia Field
Davis, married Minnie Foree in 1919. No children.

11. EARLY, son of James S. and Lucretia Field Davis,
married Cleste Stevens in 1912. Have two children — Fleeta S.
and Early Woodroe.

10. JOHN ROBERTS, son of Henry Young and Mary E.
Baker Field, married Sallie Major in 1913.

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10. ALLIE, daughter of Henry Young and Mary E. Baker
Field, married David W. Bouldin in 1898. One child — Mary
Elizabeth, died in infancy.

10. EDMONIA, daughter of Henry Young and Mary E.
Baker Field, married Samuel D. May in 1898. Four children —
Elizabeth, born March 19, 1899; Ruth, May 31, 1904; Samuel
and Mary Agnes (twins) May 17, 1913.

11. ELIZABETH, daughter of Samuel D. and Edmonia
Field May, married Lawrence Harris in 1923. One child — Wil¬
liam Lawrence, Jr.

10. JAMIE, daughter of Henry Young and Mary E. Baker
Field, married Albert Frich in 1900. No children.

9. MINNA, daughter of Lucretius and Lydia Montgomery
Baker, married Charles W. Hedger, September 5, 1876. Two
children — Hugh Allen, born December 26, 1881, died September
26, 1882, and William Field, not married, born October 9, 1883.

9. WILLIAM J., son of Lucretius and Lydia Montgomery
Baker, married Lutie Marr, October 15, 1883. No children.

9. ALICE, daughter of Lucretius and Lydia Montgomery
Baker, married James E. Scott, March 15, 1876. Children — Wal¬
ter, born and died in 1887; Frank Lucretius, born May 1, 1883,
died August 17, 1905.

9. LYDIA MONTGOMERY, daughter of Lucretius and
Lydia Montgomery Baker, married Frank C. Hayman, Septem¬
ber 25, 1879. Children — Rosina Clark, born September 23, 1880,
and Nell, born December 16, 1889.

10. ROSINA CLARK, daughter of Frank C., and Lydia M.
Baker Hayman, married Kenton Harman, October 22, 1906.
Children — Lucy Bell, born November 7, 1910, and Eleanor, born
November 3, 1912. Kenton Harman died and Rosina Hayman
Harman, married, for second husband, Beverly N. Brown, August
8, 1921.

10. NELL, daughter of Frank C. and Lydia M. Baker Hay¬
man, married George E. Janisch, May 23, 1912. Children — Mary

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Ellen, born August 29, 1913; Mima Josephine, May 22, 1915, and
Frank Hayman, July 27, 1921.

9. KATHERYN, youngest daughter of Lucretious and
Lydia Montgomery Baker, was born June 7, 1858; unmarried.

8. DR. HARVEY, son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, married, first, Sarah Hendricks, of Virginia.
Daughter — Katherine Elizabeth, born in Knoxville, December
29, 1841. Second wife, Ann Hieskel. One child — Eliza; third
wife, Agnes Brooks; children — Lillie, Agnes and Harvey, Jr.

Dr. Harvey Baker was kliled while in active service in the
Civil War, while on scout duty.

9. KATHERINE ELIZABETH, daughter of Dr. Harvey
and Sarah Hendricks Baker, married Joseph Walker in 1867.
They had five children. Two died in infancy — Harvey Baker
and Anne of Knoxville and Mrs. Beaumont North of Franklin,
Tennessee. Also they have five grandchildren.

Katherine Elizabeth died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
North, September 6, 1923, while on a visit.

She was of a lovely disposition, and a zealous worker in the
Presbyterian Church. She gave the ground for the church at
Cedar Springs. After the death of her father (her mother also
being dead), she made her home with Dr. William Baker, her
uncle, who at his death left her, with other of his nieces, a nice
share of his vast estate. These facts were taken from her
obituary.

8. ABNER, JR., son of Captain Abner and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford Baker, married Susan White, of Manchester, Kentucky.

8. ELIZABETH, daughter of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, married Dr. Crozier, of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Children — Robert, Carrick, Baker, Elizabeth, Sallie and Katie.

8. KITTY, daughter of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, married Dudley Denton, of Somerset, Kentucky.
One child — Kate.

8. AMERICA, daughter of Captain Abner and Elizabeth

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Buford Baker, born in 1819, married David Vere Walker, of Mad¬
ison County, Kentucky. Children — Mary Ann, born April 20,
1839, never married and died August 3, 1852 ; Lucy Bates, born
April 20, 1841, died December 22, 1880; Daniel Bates, born Sep¬
tember 15, 1843, died May 9, 1920; Emma and Harriett (twins),
born August 19, 1845 (Emma never married, died in Garrard
County, Kentucky, April 29, 1865) ; Joel Jones, born June 30,
1848; David Vere, Jr., born November 2, 1849, and Alice Amer¬
ica, born September 29, 1851.

David Vere Walker, was born February 15, 1807, at
“Walkerie” in Madison County, Kentucky, and died at his resi¬
dence in Clay County, Kentucky. He owned over 10,000 acres

of valuable coal, timber and farming lands, salt works (Goose
Creek), two large stores and sixty slaves — was a very lich man
for his age and day. His wife was a daughter of Captain Abner
and Elizabeth Buford Baker, born November 29, 1819, married
March 30, 1837, died October, 1899. David Vere Walker was the
eldest son of Stephen Watkins Walker of “Walkerie” and his
second wife, Lucy Bates, was a daughter of John Bates, of Buck¬
ingham County (State Creek), Virginia, at Valley Forge, Revo¬
lutionary War. Stephen Watkins Walker was the eldest son of
Asaph Walker, born in 1735; served under Colonel Byrd in last
French and Indian War. His wife was Judith Watkins of Mani-
kantown, Virginia.

9. LUCY BATES, daughter of David Vere and America
Baker Walker, was born April 20, 1841, and died at her home in
Winnsboro, South Carolina, December 22, 1880. She was mar¬
ried to William R. Doty, June 20, 1861. Children — Marcus
Walker and Ella. William R. Doty died January, 1923.

10. MARCUS WALKER, son of William R. and Lucy
Walker Doty, was born July 14, 1865, married Lillian Caldwell
January 23, 1895, born March 21, 1870. Children — Lucy Walker,
Kate Caldwell, Mark H. and Ruth Caldwell. Marcus Walker
Doty is a very wealthy planter, a graduate of V. M. I., Richmond,

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Virginia, has a large store of General Merchandise and Farm Im¬
plements, also Fertilizers and Cotton, Winnsboro, South Carolina.

11. LUCY WALKER, daughter of Marcus Walker and Lil¬
lian C. Doty, was born April 30, 1896; has a good education —
graduated at Converse College ; book-keeper in her father's store
for four years before she married to J. W. Houseal, September
12, 1922, an engineer for Lockwood, Greene and Company, of
Boston, Massachusetts. They now live (1924) at Greer, South
Carolina, where he is employed in building $4,000,000 cotton mill
for Lockwood, Green and Company.

11. KATE CALDWELL, daughter of Marcus Walker and
Lillian C. Doty, was born February 9, 1898, a graduate of Con¬
verse College, and a fine musician, was married to R. Y. Turner,
Jr., an army officer, November 12, 1919, in San Francisco, Cali¬
fornia, and sailed at once for the Philippines, where he was sta¬
tioned until 1920, when he resigned; now live in Marshalltown,
Iowa.

11. MARK H., son of Marcus Walker and Lillian C. Doty,
was born October 20, 1902, and is a very promising young man.
Graduated June, 1924, in Electrical Engineering, at Virginia
Military Institute ; will go to Converse College in fall of 1924.

11. RUTH CALDWELL, daughter of Marcus Walker and
Lillian C. Doty, was born January 23, 1904, graduated at Con¬
verse College, June, 1924, and will go to Columbia University
in September, 1924, and take a post graduate course.

10. ELLA, daughter of William R. and Lucy Walker Doty,
born July 20, 1867, married Samuel Cathcort, April 21, 1896,
from Antrim, Ireland, a fine Christian man and good provider.
Children — Elizabeth, born in 1898, is a fine musician, and is
teaching school in North Carolina (1924) ; Susie was born, 1900,
married in December, 1923, to a Mr. Moffatt; Sabrit D., born
in 1902, is in College; William Doty, born September, 1904. His
mother died September 30, 1904, when he was born. Home,
Winnsboro, South Carolina.

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DANIEL BATES WALKER AND TABITHA BURNSIDE, HIS WIFE

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9. DANIEL BATES, son of David Vere and America Baker
Walker, born September 15, 1843, in Clay County, Kentucky, died
at Long Beach, California, May 9, 1920, and was buried at
“Sunny Side.”

Daniel Bates was a real Southern gentleman, greatly inter¬
ested in politics, a staunch Democrat, the truest of friends, kind¬
est of neighbors and never so happy as when aiding those more
needy than himself. His home was always dispensing bounteous
hospitalities to all who came his way. He was greatly beloved by
kinspeople and friends in many states. He moved with his
family when a young man to Garrard County, Kentucky, where
he lived until 1888, moving thence to his farm, “Sherwood,” near
Kirksville, Madison County, Kentucky, where he lived until De¬
cember, 1897, when he left for Wichita Falls, Texas. In 1919,
he, with his wife and daughter, moved to Long Beach, where he
died. He was married to Tabitha Burnside, January 15, 1873,
an attractive young daughter of Josiah Burnside and his wife,
Almira Hiatt, of Lancaster, Kentucky. Josiah Burnside was son
of James, who was in General Wayne’s Company under General
Hopkins, 1812 campaign ; also was at Dudley’s defeat, May 5,
1813, and given land grant in Illinois. James was the son of
Walter Burnside, born in 1713, Ireland, who rendered service to
America in the Revolution.

Daniel Bates and Tabitha Burnside had seven children, all
of whom are living (1924). Children — Allie Burnside, Wade
Hampton, David Vere, Daniel Bates, Jr., Sue, Mark Doty and
James Burnside.

10. ALLIE BURNSIDE, daughter of Daniel Bates and
Tabitha Burnside Walker, was born October 25, 1873, married
Richard Pickering Fox, Jr., November 10, 1897. He was born
November 29, 1866, Richmond, Kentucky (Foxtown), died Janu¬
ary 29, 1914, at Fort Worth, Texas, and buried at Wichita Falls,
Texas. He was the youngest son of R. P. Fox, Sr., and wife,
Ophelia Biggerstaff, of Richmond, Kentucky ; was a noted owner

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and breeder of trotting horses. Allie Walker and R. P. Fox, Jr.,
were married at the Presbyterian Church at Kirksville, Ken¬
tucky, by Rev. Henry Faulkener. They have only one child,
Louise, born August 27, 1898, at Richmond, Kentucky. When
she was almost three years old, the Foxes moved to Fort Worth,
Texas, where R. P. Fox, Jr., was wholesale dealer in horses and
mules, associated with Fort Worth Horse and Mules Company.
Louise grew to be a very beautiful young lady, married when 18
years of age to John Cadwadel Humphrey, a fine young English¬
man, nephew of Jack Jones, kinsman of the Elder Morgan Jones.

They were married at her grandparents’ home, 704 Scott
avenue, Wichita Falls, Texas, August 31, 1916, by Rev. Lapsley
McKee, an old friend of the family, formerly of Kentucky. They
located at 2603 Ninth Street. He was associated with his uncle
Jack Jones, in the Jones Grain Company, until Mr. Jones sold
out. Then the Humphreys sailed for England on “Adriadie”
May, 1920, for his old home in Wales, where they have lived for
the past three years, at “Glynhiarieth,” their beautiful old home
two miles out from Llaufair, Montgomeryshire, near Welshponl.

They have two boys, Jack, named for his Uncle Jack Jones,
born November 29, 1917, and Richard Percy, born May 26, 1919,
both in Texas before the parents left; Joan Louise, born June 29,
1922, at “Glynhiarieth.”

Allie Walker Fox is a member of D. A. R., national
number, 67173, having five or six lines on her father’s
side and four on her mother’s side; was state officer of United
Daughters of 1812, of Texas, in 1917-18, state number 148.

10. DR. WADE HAMPTON, son of Daniel Bates and
Tabitha Burnside Walker, was born December 1, 1875, in Gar¬
rard County, Kentucky. He attended school in Nashville, Ten¬
nessee; was for a while in his cousin’s store but decided to study
medicine and surgery. In the spring of 1897 he attended Medical
College, Fort Worth, Texas. He was class president when he
graduated, and then surgeon at the St. Joseph Hospital, later re¬
turning to Wichita Falls, Texas, to be associated with his uncle,

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Dr. Samuel Hiatt Burnside, where for over twenty years he had
a very large and remunerative practice.

He married, June 1, 1908, Esther Howard, of Tulsa, Okla¬
homa, who was the only child of John Howard and wife, Ellen
Jeanett Elems. Mr. Howard was emigrant agent for several
railroads, prominent in building Wichita Falls, Houston and
Tulsa, Oklahoma; for years wrote for the Farm and Ranch; did
more to settle up Texas than any other man. He died in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, in 1905 or 1906. Mrs. Howard then went to live
with Dr. and Mrs. Walker. She was almost 65 when she died in
October, 1911. Esther Howard Walker was born November 8,
1882, is a fine musician, founded the Music Club and Day Nurs¬
ery at Wichita Falls, was a zealous worker and trained chorister
of the Catholic Church and a member of several clubs. Children
— Mary Jenette and Daniel Howard, Mary Jenette, born Decem¬
ber 28, 1911, has a beautiful voice, has been singing in public
since five years of age, twice for Los Angeles Times radio ; Daniel
Howard, born July 11, 1916. Dr. Walker has made 260 Mira Mar,
Long Beach, California, his home for about four years and has
a fine growing practice.

10. DAVID VERE, son of Daniel Bates and Tabitha Burn¬
side Walker, born May 1, 1878, is a bachelor, a successful real
estate man in Wichita Falls, Texas, and owns a large tract of
land near Clovis, New Mexico.

10. DANIEL BATES, JR., called Bates, born September
19, 1880, married Selma Rogers of Claude, Texas, where they live,
has been since a mere lad with the Fort Worth & Denver Rail¬
road, first as dispatcher, later agent, for about twenty years. He
is a man of sterling qualities, bright mind, loves books and is
devoted to his family. They have two boys, Bates, called DeVere,
born October, 1917, and Doyle, born in August, 1919.

10. SUE, called Dot, daughter of Daniel Bates and Tabitha
Burnside Walker, born October 19, 1883, in Garrard County,
Kentucky, married William Bolton Shepperd, November 10, 1909,

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who was chief clerk for Fort Worth & Denver Railroad, and later
was made Traveling Freight Agent for the same road, with
Wichita his residence at time of his death, March 15, 1914. No
children.

10. MARK DOTY, son of Daniel Bates and Tabitha Burn¬
side Walker, born February 18, 1886, married Mary Anderson,
June 1, 1910, who was the daughter of Archibald and Bertha
Thompson Anderson. They were married at the Presbyterian
Church at Wichita Falls, Texas. He was at the time teller of the
First National Bank and later became a member of the firm of
Craven Walker Maer Insurance Company. He became interested
in oil and building houses, and was owner of a number of large
brick business houses in Wichita Falls and a vast tract of land
near Clovis, New Mexico. Children — Mark Anderson, born No¬
vember 28, 1911 ; is very studious and belongs to the Boy Scouts;
Leanora, born February 16, 1914, and Mary Anne, born June
24, 1917. Mary Anderson Walker died October 20, 1918, age 30
years, in the terrible “flu” epidemic. Mark married, for his sec¬
ond wife, Mrs. Pearl Gerry, a cultured Southern French lady, who
is giving his little ones a loving mother’s care.

10. JAMES BURNSIDE, son and youngest child of Daniel
Bates and Tabitha Burnside Walker, born May 23, 1892, at
“Sherwood,” Madison County, Kentucky, never married, was
a fine insurance man until his health completely failed him from
overwork.

9. EMMA AND HARRIETT (twins), daughters of David
Vere and America Baker Walker, were born August 19, 1845.
The beautiful twins were the pride of their parents. Emma
never married, died in Garrard County, Kentucky, April 29, 1865.
Harriett married James White, of a prominent Knoxville, Ten¬
nessee, family, and a Confederate soldier. They had four
children — Walker and George, are owners of the White Brothers
Trunk and Bag Company of Nashville, Tennessee. George mar¬
ried a Texas girl, Annie, and has two children. Walker married

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Delia Sparks. No children. James married Miss French. No
children. Lucy Doty married Howard Trapp. They now live at
Columbia, South Carolina. They have twelve children, one son
served overseas during World War. Several are married- and
have children.

9. JOEL JONES, son of David Vere and America Baker
Walker, born June 30, 1848, married Julia P. Doty, June 26, 1872,
died the fall of 1923 at Lancaster, Kentucky. They had four
children— David C., never married, died August, 1914. He was
a model boy, from a lad and was with the Citizens National Bank,
Lancaster, Kentucky. His father was for years president and
large stockholder of said Bank. William married Florence Har¬
ris. No children. Joe, Jr., is with Citizens National Bank. He
married Miss Morrow. Daughters — Ed Morrow and Lee Ander¬
son. Alice married Robert Brewer, a banker of Chelsea, Okla-
• _

homa. They have four children.

9. DAVID VERE, JR., son of David Vere and America
Baker Walker, born November 2, 1849, in Clay County, Ken¬
tucky, a wealthy merchant and planter of Winnsboro, South Caro-
olina, married Alice Buchannan, of a fine old Southern family
and a wonderful musician. They have two girls and two boys.

Alice, who inherited her mother’s wonderful talent, has com¬
posed some; never married and lives at home with her parents;
Rebecca, married Dr. Vergil Kinnard, who was in medical corps
overseas in World War. They have three children.

Dave and John are both married and live in Winnsboro,
South Carolina.

9. ALICE AMERICA, youngest child of David Vere and
America Baker Walker, born September 29, 1851, married Jesse
Doty, June 26, 1872, a son of Sabe Doty. They had seven
children, only one a son. They had a large and beautiful home
at Hyattsville, Kentucky, where they loved to entertain their
friends and relatives. Later they moved to Lancaster, Kentucky,
where Alice America died in 1906, after an illness of about a

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year. Mr. Doty lives in Lancaster and his daughter Emma keeps
house for him. The eldest, Sue Gatewood, died Christmas, 1893,
age 16, a lovely girl.

10. HATTIE, born July 1, 1871, married Ed Smith, who is
editor and owner of the Pantagrayh, of Richmond, Kentucky. No
children.

10. JULIA WALKER, born December 29, 1877, died in in¬
fancy.

10. EMMA, born April 8, 1880, lives with her father. Not
married.

10. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, only son of Jesse and Alice
America Doty, born March 6, 1882, never married, lives at Rich¬
mond, Kentucky.

10. JESSIE, daughter of Jesse and Alice America Walker
Doty, born February 2, 1886, married George Taylor Bogard,
August 6, 1910. He was born April 28, 1886. They have one son,
George Taylor, Jr., born December 29, 1921, at Richmond, Ken¬
tucky. Home, 1202 South Fourth St., Louisville, Kentucky.

10. LUCY WALKER, youngest daughter of Jesse and Alice
America Walker Doty, born September 5, 1889, a most capable
business woman, is private secretary to a prominent lawyer,
Lexington, Kentucky.

8. PATSY, daughter of Captain Abner and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford Baker, died December 23, 1891, at the age of 75, in Orange
County, Florida, and was buried in Lancaster, Kentucky. She
never married.

8. FRANCES ANN, daughter of Captain Abner and Eliza¬
beth Buford Baker, married Wade Hampton Walker, September
11, 1840. Children — Ellen, Eliza, Thomas Bates, Elizabeth,
Lucy, Wade Hampton, Jr., America, Frances Ann, Almira Jane,
James Baker, Robert Lee and Minnie Heath.

Wade Hampton Walker, born June 29, 1813, died November
5, 1891. His wife, Frances Ann Baker Walker, born April 21,
1823, died April 3, 1915. She was ninety-two years of age, and

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died at the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Minnie Walker
Geiger, Huntington, West Virginia. The following quotation,
which she was often heard saying, will show of her good life and
sweet disposition. She was next to the youngest of fifteen
children, but the last living:

“I am of the last golden link of a long chain of ancestors
brought over from England, transplanted in Virginia, and re¬
transplanted in Kentucky’s sunny clime. Each link has dropped
out of sight, but is not lost — will rise again in the Celestial City.”

She lived to reach the age of ninety-two, but her intellect
was perfectly clear and her faith firm. She loved the Lord be¬
cause He heard her voice and supplication. She often sang, ‘T
will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.”
We bless her name and are proud to call her Mother.

9. ELLEN, daughter of Wade Hampton and Frances Ann
Baker Walker, born July 10, 1842, married B. F. Travis, Feb¬
ruary 14, 1860, in Garrard County, Kentucky. She died July 16,
1920. They have six children — Lizzie, Willie, Walker, Frank,
Robert and Percy.

10. LIZZIE, daughter of B. F. and Ellen Walker Travis,
married Frank Muth, of Paris, Kentucky, April 28, 1885.
Children — Frank, Jr., born January 27, 1887, married Allie
Frank, July 16, 1916, live in New Orleans; Nellie, born February
3, 1889, married Fred Benage, June 8, 1911.

9. ELIZA, daughter of Wade Hampton and Frances Ann
Baker Walker, born September 15, 1843, died November 2, 1888,
married Cleland Terrill, December 19, 1872. Children — Ann
Walker, Pattie, John Howard, Wade Hampton, Oliver U.

10. ANNE WALKER, daughter of Cleland and Eliza
Walker Terrill, born October 7, 1873, died September 18, 1879.

10. PATTIE, daughter of Cleland and Eliza Walker Ter¬
rill, born December 27, 1874, died - , married James B.

Woods, November 6, 1894. Children — Annie Eliza and James
B.

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10. JOHN HOWARD, son of Cleland and Eliza Walker Ter¬
rill, born February 28, 1876, living at Idaho Falls, Idaho.

10. WADE HAMPTON, son of Cleland and Eliza Walker
Terrill, born February 12, 1878, married Martha Zelma Kirk¬
patrick, of Charlotte, North Carolina, February 22, 1905.
Children — Leroy and Louisa, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

10. OLIVER U., son of Cleland and Eliza Walker Terrill,
born March 13, 1882, married, June 26, 1912, to Callie P. Adams,
of Lancaster, Kentucky. No children. Home, Richlands, Vir¬
ginia.

9. THOMAS BATES, son of Wade Hampton and Frances
Ann Baker Walker, born March 15, 1845, married, January 26,
1876, to Jennie Francis, of Richmond, Kentucky. Children —
John F., born June 4, 1877, lives in Mississippi; Wade Bates,
died in November, 1879; Thomas B. Walker, died July 29, 1911.
Second marriage, to Alice Barkley, June 15, 1893, of Nickolas-
ville, Kentucky. They have three children — Barkley (died) ;
George B., born June 19, 1895, married Margaret Cooper, of
Nashville, Tennessee, and live in Nashville; Thomas, Jr., born
July, 1901, lives in Nashville, unmarried. Thomas Bates Walker
died July 29, 1911.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of Wade Hampton and Fiances
Ann Baker Walker, born July 29, 1847, in Manchester, Clay
County, Kentucky, died in 1852.

9. LUCY, daughter of Wade Hampton and Frances Ann
Baker Walker, born March 4, 1849, married B. F. Hudson, De¬
cember 24, 1874. Children — Alice Walker; Frank, born June
16, 1877, died August 7, 1877; Lizzie Morgan; Waller C., born
April 22, 1884, now living in Guayaquil, Ecuador, South Amer¬
ica, and Shirly, living with her mother at Lancaster, Kentucky.

10. ALICE WALKER, daughter of Ben F. and Lucy
Walker Hudson, born February 19, 1876, married Fred Frisbie.
They had one son, Hudson, a brilliant and handsome young man
nineteen years of age, who met death by being drowned, May

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22, 1920. It was his first year at Centre College, Danville, Ken¬
tucky. The boys and girls had gone to Dix River, at the Water
Works, where the river was dammed, the boys jumping off, diving
and swimming, while the girls stood on the bank and watched.
When he jumped he went down and never came up. A heroic
effort was made to save him, one of his comrades diving thir¬
teen times and almost losing his own life, but to no avail. A sad
day it was when one so promising should answer the last call.
God in His infinite wisdom deemed it best, and we can only say,
“Thy will be done,” and “Lead Kindly Light.”

10. LIZZIE MORGAN, daughter of Ben F. and Lucy
Walker Hudson, born June 12, 1882, married Marshall Denny.
Children — Shirley Hudson, born May 2, 1908; James Beatty,
born January 23, 1910; Lucy Bates, born May 2, 1914, and Alice
Franklin, born November 1, 1918. Home, Lancaster, Kentucky.

9. WADE HAMPTON, Jr., son of Wade Hampton and
Frances Ann Baker Walker, born September 30, 1851, at Man¬
chester, Clay County, Kentucky, died December 12, 1881, un¬
married and was buried at Richmond, Kentucky.

9. AMERICA, daughter of Wade Hampton and Frances
Ann Baker Walker, born January 7, 1855, in Manchester, Ken¬
tucky, married James Burnside, December 7, 1881, lives in Rich¬
mond, Kentucky. Children — Wade Walker and Jennie C.

10. WADE WALKER, son of America and James Burn¬
side, was born December 24, 1882, married Hester Patten, April,
1909. Children — Augusta Jane, born February 14, 1911; Frank
Robinson and Ben Patten (twins), born February 19, 1915.

10. JENNIE C., daughter of James and America Walker
Burnside, born June 13, 1887, married Charles S. Collier in 1908.
Children — James Burnside, born August 28, 1909; Elizabeth,
born May 10, 1911; Clare DuPont, born March 6, 1919, and Jen¬
nie, born November 28, 1921. Home, Richmond, Kentucky.

9. FRANCES ANN, daughter of Wade Hampton and
Frances Ann Baker Walker, born February 4, 1857, in Man-

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Chester, Kentucky, married W. 0. Rigney, January 12, 1881. They
have four children — Robert C., born February 13, 1882, died Feb¬
ruary 15, 1886; Pauline Wilkerson (Lena), born December 4,
1883, married Thomas Woodson Burnside, March 10, 1909 ; home,
Lancaster, Kentucky; Wade Walker, born October 17, 1885, died
October 10, 1894; Alice Hudson, born December 30, 1898, mar¬
ried Wesley Brown Dickerson of Danville, Kentucky, July 9,
1917. Home, Lancaster, Kentucky.

9. ALMIRA JANE, daughter of Wade Hampton and
Frances Ann Baker Walker, born March 26, 1859, in Garrard
County, Kentucky, married J. F. Cotton of Danville, Kentucky,
November 22, 1884, living at Memphis, Tennessee, have two
children — Minnie Lee, born September 22, 1885, at Danville,
Kentucky, married Ed W. Collier, November 15, 1911, have one
son, Charles Walker, born December 15, 1922; home, Memphis,
Tennessee; Annie Cotton, born June 4, 1888, at Danville, Ken¬
tucky, unmarried, home Memphis, Tennessee.

9. JAMES BATES, son of Wade Hampton and Frances
Ann Baker Walker, born November 2, 1860, married Mary
Deatherage, October 24, 1889, live in Richmond, Kentucky, and
have five children — Robert Wade, born August 11, 1890, married
Lawler Haff, of Frankfort, Kentucky, March 5, 1923, home, Lex¬
ington, Kentucky; Annie May, born March 1, 1892, married Fred

S. Marlott December 22, 1923, home Williamson, W. Va.; Ellen

T. , born April 3, 1894, married Edwin D. Smathas August 19,
1922, live at Terre Haute, Indiana ; Daniel Bates, born March 12,
1896, married Sarah Adams February 14, 1917, live at Newal-
ton, Louisiana; Lucy B., born in 1899, Richmond, Kentucky, un¬
married.

9. ROBERT LEE, son of Wade Hampton and Frances Ann
Baker Walker, born October 6, 1862, married, October 18,
1894, to Lizzie Steele of Nicholasville, Kentucky. His wife and
child died on the same day, March 16, 1905. He died August 24,
1920, Lancaster, Kentucky.

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9. MINNIE HEATH, youngest child of Wade Hampton
and Frances Baker Walker, married at Lancaster, Kentucky,
David Donold Geiger, of Ashland, Kentucky, October 8, 1890,
and live at Huntington, West Virginia. Children — John Walker,
born June 6, 1892, at his father’s home, unmarried, and Frances
Ann, born April 21, 1895, married Mason S. McKee, November
3, 1923, home Huntington, West Virginia. She is an active mem¬
ber of D. A. R., national number 175457. There are six direct
lines of ancestors which entitle her and her mother to member¬
ship in the chapter. She is also a good worker in the Presby¬
terian Church. Mrs. Minnie Walker Geiger’s national number,
71408, organized and had the pleasure of naming the Buford
Chapter at Huntington, West Virginia, after her great grand¬
father, William Early Buford. She is now Chaplain, was first
Regent and is Honorary Life Regent. In 1922 their lovely Log
Cabin Chapter Home was completed and furnished with antique
and mahogany furniture. When it was dedicated she made the
principal address, placed the treasures in the treasure box, placed
seal in stone work at big fireplace, and made the dedicatory
prayer (See picture at beginning of this chapter). In 1817 she
was assistant organizer of state chapter N. S., U. S. D.’s of 1912,
and has been president of state of West Virginia, since 1920. In
April of each year she goes to Washington, D. C., to attend the
Associate Council and represent the state. Their family, from
a way back, have been members of the Presbyterian Church, of
which she also is a faithful and zealous member and worker.

8. HARRIET, daughter of Captain Abner and Elizabeth
Buford Baker, born September 4, 1825, married Dr. William
Hopper of Lebanon, Kentucky, one daughter, Hallie, who mar¬
ried Dr. William McKee, Eustis, Florida.

7. FRANCES, daughter of William Early and Mary Welsh
Buford, married - Young.

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7. AMELIA, daughter of William Early and Mary Welsh

Buford, married - Tilford, Shepardsville, Kentucky, or one

of them married - - Bowman.

7. WILLIAM, son of William Early and Mary Welsh Bu¬
ford, married Rebecca Day. Children — Mary, Jefferson, Frank¬
lin, Japlin and Leonidas.

8. MARY, daughter of William and Rebecca Day Buford,
married James Chestnut, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.

8. JEFFERSON, son of William and Rebecca D. Buford,
married Nancy Parsons. Several children, one named William.

8. FRANKLIN, son of William and Rebecca D. Buford,
married, lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

8. JAPLIN, daughter of William and Rebecca D. Buford,
married William Ramsey, went to Indiana. Has children.

8. LEONIDAS, son of William and Rebecca D. Buford,
married Ann Cook, died, leaving three children. She married
again and lives at Beria, Kentucky.

CHAPTER VIII

6. COLONEL ABRAHAM AND MARTHA (McDOWELL)

BUFORD

6. ABRAHAM, son of John and Judith Early Beauford,
born in Culpeper County, Virginia, July 31, 1749, married Oc¬
tober 4, 1788, Martha McDowell, who was born June 26, 1766,
daughter of Samuel and Mary (McClung) McDowell. Children
— Samuel, never married, born July 19, 1789; John, never mar¬
ried, February 24, 1792; Charles, June 30, 1797; Abraham, Jr.,
never married, September 25, 1800; William McDowell, March
12, 1803 ; Mary, December 2, 1805.

In June and July, 1775, relations between Lord Dunmore,
the royal governor of the colony, and the House of Burgesses
were strained to the point of rupture. In October he took up
his residence on board a ship of war, at Williamsburg, and the
House of Burgesses, after appointing a committee with unlimited
powers of government, adjourned.

The committee at once took measures to raise a sufficient
armed force to defend the colony and the royal government
ended forever in Virginia. A corps of volunteers was called for,
and, in response to the call, three hundred men assembled at
Culpeper Court House; one-third of them were Culpeper men,
who adopted a flag bearing the device of a coiled rattlesnake and
the motto, “Don’t tread on me.” They were dressed in green
hunting shirts with “Liberty or Death” on their breasts, bucks’
tails in their hats, and tomahawks and scalping knives in their
belts.

Howe, in history of Virginia, says Culpeper County fur¬
nished five companies, of eighty-four men each, and Captain
Buford’s company was among them.

These volunteers, under command of Colonel Stevens,
marched to Williamsburg, where they joined Colonel Woodford’s
forces. Dunmore and his ships were compelled to flee from that
place, and with an increased force he threatened Hampton.

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The Culpeper men, under Colonel Woodford, were ordered
to protect the town, and on the 25th of October repulsed Dun-
more’s attack and drove him off, with heavy loss, gaining a
signal victory. Dunmore proceeded to Norfolk with his fleet,
raised the royal standard, declared martial law and freedom to
slaves; he sent landing parties into the adjoining counties, and
employed every means of inciting the Indians against the colon¬
ists. Woodford went to the protection of Norfolk, and the militia
of that place was called out.

Dunmore took possession of and fortified Great Bridge, on
the Elizabeth River, by which route the patriots approached
the town, and on the 9th of December attacked the patriots, who
had thrown up a redoubt on the other side of the bridge. His
force, consisting of British regulars, Tories, negroes, and In¬
dians, was repulsed and driven back over the bridge. The Cul¬
peper battalion, acting with the greatest daring and bravery, at¬
tacked the Royalists on the left flank, causing a complete rout.
Dunmore again fled to his ships, and Woodford entered the
town (Norfolk) on the 14th of December.

The Royal fleet was reinforced, and on the 31st, under a
heavy fire from the ships, men landed and set fire to the town,
and in two days the destruction was complete. The patriots met
with slight losses. They succeeded in driving back each invad¬
ing force and in holding the town. Colonel Stevens and his little
band remained on the ground until February, when they de¬
stroyed what remained, removed the families of the patriots to
places of safety, and abandoned it. The colonial forces were
scattered, to protect the coast. Dunmore abandoned Norfolk in
May, proceeded to the Chesapeake, and afterwards joined the
fleet in New York, from there towards the close of the year he
set sail for England.

In the Virginia records, 1776-1777, Revolutionary Archives
of Virginia Militia, in the state library of Richmond, under date
of September 7, 1776, “ordered that a warrant be issued to Cap-

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tain Abraham Buford, of Culpeper Minute Men, for one hundred
and fifty pounds, five shillings and nine pence, for the use of
himself, Lieutenant Gallison and Ensign Roberts, for rations,
forage, arms, wagons, hire, etc.”

After Dunmore’s fight the coast of Virginia enjoyed com¬
parative quiet. A call for troops for the Continental Army from
Virginia was made, and fifteen regiments were allotted to her.
Probably not more than three of these were ever filled. On the
13th of November, 1776, Abraham Buford was appointed major
of the 14th Virginia Regiment. The officers, who were ap¬
pointed to recruit their own men, were hurried to the front,
and joined the army with just such men as they could muster,
in most cases representing only the nucleus of a regiment.

When Washington was assembling the Continental Army
at and about New York, during the discouraging campaign
which resulted in the retreat into New Jersey, in December,
prior to the beginning of the campaign of ’77, the army was re¬
organized and many promotions made. The 14th Virginia was
probably merged into the 5th Virginia, with Josiah Parks as
colonel and Abraham Buford as lieutenant-colonel, from April
1, 1777, which, with the 15th Virginia, formed a battalion of the
11th Virginia, Colonel Daniel Morgan, during the Campaign
of ’77, ending with the retreat to Valley Forge.

In the reorganization of the spring of 1778, Abraham Bu¬
ford was made colonel of the 15th Virginia, from May 15, 1778,
which was still a battalion of the 11th Virginia, he acting as
lieutenant-colonel of both regiments. Colonel Morgan was
transferred to the 7th Virginia, and Buford was promoted to
colonel of the 11th and 15th regiments, September, 1778, and
transferred to the 3d Virginia, February 12, 1781.

Dr. William Read, of Georgia, surgeon of the Continental
Army, in his reminiscences, mentions that “his old friend,
Colonel Abraham Buford, together with himself, Colonel Carvel
Hall and Major Graham, met and devised means of aiding, with

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clothing, and suppoiting the women and children who were camp
followers during the severe winters while the army was in New
Jersey. They resolved to erect a theater and give a play to
raise funds for these wretched creatures. A hall was gratuit¬
ously furnished at Brunswick. The party contributed money and
material, fitted up a pit and scenery, and commenced acting.
The ladies of Brunswick took a great interest in the plan and
did much to encourage and assist the organization. Young col¬
lege boys took the parts of women, and their sisters furnished
dresses, which were made of camblet. The intention was under¬
stood and applauded, and the scheme was most successful.

“Clothing and supplies were gotten out of New York by in¬
dustry and private correspondence.”

Dr. Read says that he never saw Colonel Buford after this,
and adds that he was killed at the St. Clair massacre. Of course
he was mistaken in this. Saffel’s records of the Revolution
make frequent mention of Colonel Buford during his connection
with the army in the neighborhood of New York, Valley Forge,
Brunswick and Trenton.

The foregoing is taken from : De Haas’ “History Western
Virginia,” Howe’s “History of Virginia,” “American Archives,
1776”; “Heitman’s Register,” Draper’s “Heroes of King’s Moun¬
tain,” Records of War Department, Records of Pension Depart¬
ment, Records of Pension Office, Records of Virginia State
Militia, Martin’s “History South Carolina,” Collins’ “History
Kentucky,” Foote’s “Sketches of Virginia,” Saffel’s “Records of
the Revolution,” Gibbs’ “Documentary History of South Caro¬
lina.”

During the campaign of 1778-1779 the Continental Army
held its own in the North, and finally wore out the British forces
and compelled them to begin operations in the South. The actual
seat of war was transferred to North and South Carolina. The
Virginia troops had gradually decreased in number in four years,
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thousand five hundred, and probably few of the original organi¬
zations remained. Colonel Buford was in Virginia early in 1780
enlisting new men for the relief of Charleston. In May he left
Petersburg with about three hundred men and one field piece,
gathered promiscuously from near that place, and had proceeded
as far as Lanman’s Ferry, on the Santee, where he received in¬
telligence of the surrender of Charleston.

General Huger, senior officer in Carolina, was asked for in¬
struction. He directed Colonel Buford to retire to Hillsborough,
by the way of Camden, taking with him or destroying the stores
that had been collected there, and also to move from that place
thirty or forty prisoners. In accordance with these instructions,
such stores as could not be taken away were destroyed, and Bu¬
ford on the way to Hillsborough halted to rest his horses at Wax-
haws Creek, about nine miles north of Lancaster Court House.
Cornwallis, with about two thousand five hundred men, had
reached Lanman’s Ferry a few days after Buford left, and had
moved forward in pursuit, but, finding it would be impossible to
move so many men rapidly enough to overtake him, he detached
Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton with two hundred and forty dra¬
goons and mounted infantry to continue the pursuit.

By forced marches he overtook Buford on the 28th at Wax-
haws Creek, and sent Captain Kinlock to summons him to sur¬
render. Captain Bowyer, who was acting aide to Buford, was
sent to meet Kinlock, who refused to communicate with anyone
but Buford. On meeting Buford and making the demands, he
assured him on his word as an officer and gentleman that Tarle-
ton’s force numbered upwards of six hundred men, half of them
cavalry. The terms proposed were the same that had been given
at Charleston. Buford replied, “I reject your proposal, and shall
defend myself to the last extremity.”

Both parties prepared for action, and fighting soon began.
Buford had drawn up his forces and covered them with his
wagons, but already alarmed by the report that they were out-

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numbered and that they were no match for the British regulars,
they were thrown into hopeless disorder by the first cavalry
charge. Buford, seeing that further resistance was useless, sent
Bowyer with a flag of truce, accepting the terms before offered.
There are so many conflicting reports of what occurred- after¬
ward, that it is difficult to determine which is correct. Tarleton,
in his report, says that while he was conversing with Bowyer
under the flag, his horse was shot and fell on him. His men, see¬
ing this violation of the flag and supposing he had been killed,
attacked the rebels without order and could not be restrained.
Colonel Bowyer, in his account, makes no mention of Tarleton’s
horse having been killed, but says that while approaching under
sl flag of truce, Tarleton gave the order to his men to “cut down
the damn rebel,” and that he only escaped under a well-directed
fire from Buford. Most authorities insist that Tarleton either
paid no attention to the flag or violated it without excuse. The
patriots had the most intense hatred for the Briish and the
Tories, and lost no opportunity to annoy and harass them. This
was returned tenfold, and Tarleton was only too happy to get an
excuse to repay some of Sumter’s and Marion’s old scores.
Whether an opportunity was given by the American’s fancied
security, or by a violation of the flag by a stray shot, the British
seized it, and slaughtered without quarter one hundred and
wounded one hundred and forty men. The wounded were so
badly cut to pieces that they coud not be moved. Colonel Buforu,
with about one hundred men, succeeded in retreating into Vir¬
ginia. Much importance has been attached to this little action,
because it seemed the death-blow to the Americans in Carolina,
and also on account of the brutal cruelty of the British, which
was avenged at the battle of King’s Mountain, where the watch¬
word, “Buford’s quarter,” fired the hearts of the patriots to such
glorious deeds.

Virginia records are meager, both in Washington and in
Virginia, almost everything having been destroyed by fire or

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during the Civil War. The records in Washington are those on
file in the War Department and at the Pension Bureau.

Those in Virginia consist entirely of one small manuscript
book of records of the Virginia Militia, 1777-1778, still kept in
the state library, and a short printed list of soldiers and sailors.

At Yorktown there was but one battalion of Virginia Conti¬
nental troops ; the others had been mustered out or merged into
the militia, and had done glorious service throughout Cornwallis’
campaign, following him to Yorktown and participating in that
siege under Nelson, mustering fifteen hundred men.

Colonel Buford, February 12, 1781, was made colonel of the
Third Virginia, and served in that capacity until the close of the
war. When mustered out' he received warrants for county lands
for nearly six years’ service. He purchased the claims of his
brother, Captain John Thomas Buford, whose blood was spilt
to help gain the victory at the battle of Point Pleasant. To¬
gether these warrants were for nearly fifteen thousand acres of
land.

With little but these he went to Kentucky in 1783, accom¬
panied by his nephew, John, son of James Buford. He secured
the position of deputy surveyor, and at once began to locate his
land grants, some of these on the Ohio River, in Kentucky, and
some in Ohio, but the most valuable were in the very heart of
what is now the blue grass country, in Fayette and Woodford
counties. He settled first on Dick’s River, in the “Bent.”

The McDowells settled in Danville. He had been with Cap¬
tain Samuel McDowell at Point Pleasant, and in Kentucky they
were neighbors. Here he met and married Martha, the daughter
of his old friend and companion in arms, and in July, 1792, they
moved to Woodford County, and settled near Georgetown, no<v
Scott County. Here they spent the rest of their lives.

He was a man of most sterling qualities, every impulse up¬
right, honest, and straightforward, firm, yet loving and most lov¬
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associations, during the stirring times of the Revolution, with
the first men of the country. His attainments were rare, and
fitted him as well for civil pursuits as he had been for military.

He became the head of the house in Kentucky, and his home
was the headquarters and rendezvous, not only for his own
people, but for all Kentuckians. He devoted himself to building
up the state from a wilderness. His home grew into a magnifi¬
cent estate, in the very heart of Kentucky’s most beautiful
country. Amidst these pleasing surroundings there were many
troubles — money was scarce, land matters so muddled that no
titles were safe, lawsuits, and other people’s worries. His let¬
ters during this time contained no bitterness, no bickering, and
no expressions of hard feeling, but were business-like and con¬
siderate. His last days were happy and quietly spent amidst sur¬
roundings he loved to feel he had made.

With a beautiful and charming wife, noble sons, and an idol¬
ized daughter, he could say, with pride, “I have fought a good
fight.”

He gave his sons splendid estates in his own neighborhood,
and to his only daughter the homestead. -1; ^ .

Abraham Buford died June 30, 1833.

McDowell

1. Ephraim, first emigrant, was born in the north of Ireland,
of Scotch parents; was conspicuous when a. youth of sixteen in the
defense of Londonderry, in 1688. He married Margaret Irwin, his
first cousin. They came to America in 1729, landing at Phila¬
delphia, Pennsylvania, after the birth of their children. They first
settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but after a few years, in
the Autumn of 1737, moved to Augusta County, Virginia, and were
among the first settlers of the Burden Grant. Children — Mary E.,
born in 1712; John, 1714; Margaretta, who married James Mitchell,
and James.

2. Mary E., daughter of Ephraim and Margaret I. McDowell,
married in Pennsylvania, 1736, James Greenlee. She died in Rock¬
bridge County, Virginia, 1811. Mary Greenlee, sister of James, above,
lived to be one hundred years of age, and was by many of the super¬
stitious Scotch-Irish believed to be a witch. At a very advanced age
she still rode much of the time on horseback.

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2. John (Captain), son of Ephraim and Margaret I. McDowell,
married, in Pennsylvania, in 1734, Magdalen Woods, whose mother
was of the James Campbell Clan, in the service of the Duke of
Argyle; her father, Michael, Sr., was a son of John Woods, of
County Meath, Ireland, whose wife was Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Worsop, and a descendant of Adam Loftus, Lord High
Chancellor of Ireland during Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Michael
Woods, Sr., was one of the first emigrants to acquire land in Alber-
marle County. He crossed the mountains at Woods’ (now Jar¬
man’s) Gap, June 10, 1737. He patented and purchased large tracts
of land at the headwaters of Mechanics River, including the Gap,
and on Ivy Creek, in what is now Albermarle County. He died in
1762. Children of John and Magdalen W. McDowell — Samuel, born
in Pennsylvania, October 29, 1735; James, 1739; married Elizabeth
Clod; he died in 1771, she died in 1810, and Sarah married George
Moffitt. John was killed December 25, 1742, at Balcony Falls, Vir¬
ginia, while in pursuit of a band of marauding Indians. Magdalen
married, second, Benjamin Burden, son of the Grantee. After his
death she married, third, Colonel Bayle (or Boyle?). She lived to
be one hundred and four years of age.

3. Samuel, son of Captain John and Magdalen W. McDowell,
married, January 17, 1754, in Rockbridge County, Mary McClung
(see below). He served as private soldier in Captain Samuel
Lewis’ Company at Braddock’s defeat; was a member of the House
of Burgesses from Augusta County, 1765; was captain of a company
from that county in Dunmore’s War, 1774, and was under Captain
Andrew Lewis at Point Pleasant, and, with Colonel Field, of the Cul¬
peper men, turned defeat into victory. He was colonel of a regi¬
ment of the militia from Augusta County during the Revolutionary
War, and participated in General Jones’ North Carolina campaign;
did most gallant service at Guilford Court House. During the
same time he was a member of the House of Burgesses from
Augusta and Rockbridge Counties; chosen a member for Augusta
to the first Congress, to meet at Richmond, March 20, 1775; was a
member of the convention which met at Williamsburg to declare the
United Colonies free and independent states, and afterwards a mem¬
ber of the state council. In 1783 he was appointed surveyor of pub¬
lic lands in Fayette County, Kentucky; was assistant judge of the
first district court held in Kentucky, at Harrodsburg, March 17,
1783; moved to what is now Mercer County, 1784; wasi one of the
presiding judges at the first county court held in Kentucky district;
henceforth he was known as Judge Samuel. Children —

4. Magdalene and Sarah, twins, born October 9, 1755. Mag¬
dalene married Andrew Reid; Sarah married Caleb Wallace.

4. John (Major), born December 7, 1757, married his first
cousin, Sarah, daughter of James McDowell, who died, and he mar¬
ried, second, Lucy Legrand. Their son, Dr. Nashe, married a daugh¬
ter of Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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4. James (Colonel), born April 29, 1760, married Mary (Poliy)
Paxton Lyle, and settled near Lexington, Kentucky. Their daugh¬
ter, Isabella, married John P. Campbell, whose daughter, Margaret
Madison, married Dr. Thomas, Jr., son of Colonel John Pickett.

4. William (Judge), born March 9, 1762, married Margaret
Madison, niece of President Madison, and settled in Bowling Green,
Kentucky.

4. Samuel, Jr., born March 8, 1764, married Ann Irvin. Chil¬
dren — (1) Mary, born June 12, 1787, married June 13, 1805, to Wil¬
liam Sterling, born January 25, 1783. He died November, 1840,
and she died January 28, 1869. They had four childien. (2) John
Adair, born May 12, 1789, married, November 9, 1809, to Lucy Todd
Starling, born October 11, 1790. He died September 30, 1823, and
she died September 28, 1870. (3) Abraham Irvin, born April 24,

1793, married, 1817, to Eliza Lord, son of Major General Irvin Mc¬
Dowell, born in Columbus, Ohio, October 15, 1818. He married
Helen Burden, of Albany, New York. Children — Helen, Henry and
Janette. General McDowell died in San Francisco, May 4, 1885.
(4) Eliza, married Nathaniel Rochester, of Bowling Green, Ken¬
tucky.

4. Martha, born January 20, 1766, married Colonel Abraham
Buford (see Abraham, of John and Judith).

4. Joseph, born September 13, 1768, married Sarah Irvin, born
March 12, 1773 (sister of Ann, wife of Samuel). Children — Anne,
married Abraham Caldwell; Charles; Sarah, married Michael Sulli-
vant; Margaret, married Joseph Sullivant; Caleb, Magdalen, mar¬
ried Caleb Wallace.

4. Ephraim 2d (Dr.), the distinguished surgeon, born Novem¬
ber 11, 1771, married Sarah, daughter of Governor Isaac Shelby.

4. Mary, born January 11, 1772, married, October 10, 1794, to
Alexander Keith Marshall, born 1770. Children — Maria, Lucy.
Charles T., James Keith, Samuel and Jane. James Keith was born
March 2, 1802, married, 1827, to Catherine Calloway Hickman (see
Hickman under John Buford, Sr., of Simeon). Children — Bettie,
John L., Alexander K., Mary McDowell and Kate C. James K.
Marshall died July 4, 1866. His daughter, Bettie, married Henry
Buford (see Charles of Abraham).

4. Caleb, born April 17, 1774, married his cousin, Betsy, daugh¬
ter of Joseph McDowell.

MARTHA McDOWELL BUFORD was a fitting wife for her
husband. Reared amidst the thrilling scenes of border life, she
grew up self-reliant, helpful and strong, mentally and physically,
with that innate refinement that comes only from a long life of
noble ancesters. Her letters, many of which the writer has been

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fortunate enough to get possession of, are indicative of great
character. They are full of tenderness, and discuss politics, re¬
ligion and family matters, expressed with the quaint, old-fash¬
ioned elegance of a noble woman. She mentions with much pride
that her son Charles had just returned from the East, where he
had met and dined with President Adams, and of William having
just returned from Yale College, and of his marriage, and says,
“We think his wife most amiable.” Her last days were full of
happiness and comfort. She was always thrifty and energetic
and devotedly religious, being a Presbyterian by inheritance from
her Scotch-Irish ancestors. When no longer able to get about,
she sat knitting, with her B;«ble in her lap, which she read through
three times a year. She died July 6, 1835.

The early settlers of Kentucky brought with them their
family customs and traditions, and their homes had no counter¬
part elsewhere, except in Virginia, and in England. They were
clannish, loved their people, and were nothing if not hospitable.
Their farms grew into great estates, with beautiful pastures
filled with the finest stock in America, and well-cultivated fields
of grain and hemp.

7. CHARLES, son of Colonel Abraham and Martha (Mc¬
Dowell) Buford, married Henrietta Adair, daughter of Governor
John Adair, of Kentucky, born in South Carolina, 1757, died
May 19, 1830. Children — Henry, born October, 1822; Martha,
born 1824. Henrietta A. Buford died, and Charles married, Jan¬
uary 20, 1835, Lucy Ann Duke, born January 11, 1814. Children
— Basil Duke, born December 11, 1835, died May 23, 1891;
Charles, Jr., November 18, 1837 ; Louis Marshall, November 6,
1839; Charlotte, November 6, 1841; Susan McClung, July 20,
1844; Henrietta, June 27, 1847; Lucy, June 22, 1849; Blanche,
December 15, 1851 ; Agatha, 1852-1853, died, 1861 ; George, Oc¬
tober 1, 1856.

Charles Buford was a graduate of Yale College, a man of
genius, literary and mechanical, sweet-tempered like his father.

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with a charming and refined manner. After marrying he settled
near Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in the neighborhood
of his father’s homestead. He married a second time while living
here, and here were born his children. In 1854 or 1856 he tired
of farming and of country life and moved to Rock Island, Illi¬
nois, where he engaged in coal mining and manufacturing, ac¬
cumulating a large fortune. Charles Buford died January 4,
1866.

Lucy Ann Duke Buford died July 8, 1895.

8. HENRY, son of Charles and Henrietta A. Buford, mar-

ried, November 14, 1844, Elizabeth (Bettie) Marshall, who was
born July 18, 1825. Child — Henry Marshall, born November 30,
1845.

Henry Buford died 1848.

Bettie M. Buford died 1896. (See Mary, of Samuel Mc¬
Dowell.)

9. HENRY MARSHALL BUFORD when twelve years of
age entered Centre College, where he graduated in 1864, receiv¬
ing the highest honors of his class. He studied law with Garrett
Davis, of Paris, and attended Harvard law school, from whicii
he graduated in 1866. In 1867 he began the practice of law in
Lexington, and soon took rank as one of the brightest young law¬
yers of the Blue Grass Capital. For nearly thirty years he con¬
tinued to practice here, and once or twice during this time he
held office. He was master commissioner of the Circuit Court
from 1877 to 1880, and was judge of Common Pleas Court from
August, 1886, to August, 1890. Judge Buford was elected city
solicitor of Lexington in 1895. His father, Henry Buford, was
a native of Scott County, removing to Fayette County after ma¬
turity, where he made his home until his death in 1849. His
mother, Bettie Marshall Buford, was a native of Mason County.

Henry Marshall Buford died May 25, 1897.

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8. MARTHA (Pattie), daughter of Charles and Henrietta
A. Buford, married James S. Jackson. Child — James Buford,
captain United States Army.

James S. Jackson, born September 27, 1823, graduating
from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, studied law at Transyl¬
vania University and began practice in 1845. In his twenty-
fourth year he was chosen captain of the Lexington company,
of Marshall’s regiment, for the Mexican War. Finding that his
friend, Cassius M. Clay, was about to be left out of service, by
General Owsley’s refusal to appoint him a colonel, Jackson re¬
signed his captaincy that Clay might be chosen in his place, and
served under him as a private. While in Mexico, serving as a
lieutenant, he became involved in a quarrel with Colonel Thomas
Marshall, which resulted in a duel. Jackson resigned from the
service to escape trial by court-martial. He resumed the practice
of law in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He was an emancipationist,
but was, in 1857, elected to the Legislature from Christian
County, one of the largest slave-holding counties in the state.
He was defeated for Congress in 1859, but was elected in 1861 ;
served with distinction the first session, and left his seat to go
to the front as colonel of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, and was
with Buell in his campaign in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama. For his arduous and efficient service he was pro¬
moted to brigadier-general and left at the head of his command,
at Perryville, October 8, 1862.

8. CHARLES, JR., son of Charles and Lucy Ann Duke
Buford, married Mary Postelwaite. Children — Harriet, born
October, 1867 ; Charles 3d, August, 1869.

Charles Buford, Jr., died June 7, 1870.

8. LOUIS MARSHALL, son of Charles and Lucy Ann
Duke Buford, married at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1873,
Mary L. Slevin, who was born October 22, 1842. Children, all
born at Rock Island, Illinois — Anne, November 27, 1873; Char¬
lotte, August 29, 1875, died February 22, 1882 ; Teresa, August

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29, 1875, died March 27, 1877; Charles S., September 30, 1876;
Louis Marshall, May 20, 1878; May L., February 6, 1880, died
April 5, 1880; Basil Duke 2d, May 6, 1881; John T., March 27,
1883, died December 5, 1887.

Louis M. Buford served during the Civil War as major on
the staff of General James S. Jackson, until his death, and after
that on the staff of General Thomas L. Crittenden. He was
United States Consul at El Paso, Mexico, during President Cleve¬
land’s administration. He resides in El Paso, Mexico.

9. ANNE, daughter of Louis M. and Mary S. Buford, mar¬
ried, March 1, 1897, James Wiley Magoffin.

8. SUSAN McCLUNG, daughter of Charles and Lucy Ann
Duke Buford, married, June 17, 1869, Major Theodore Edson,
United States Army. Child — Agatha Buford, born June 4, 1870.
Major Edson died November 17, 1870.

9. AGATHA BUFORD, daughter of Theodore and Susan
Buford Edson, married, December 14, 1893, Lloyd Horwitz
Chanler, United States Navy. Child — Theodore Edson, born
December 26, 1894.

8. HENRIETTA, daughter of Charles and Lucy Ann D.
Buford, married, August 17, 1876, Thomas Fry Barbee. No
children. Henrietta Buford Barbee died September 25, 1895.

8. GEORGE, son of Charles and Lucy Ann D. Buford, mar¬
ried, November 10, 1885, Fannie L. Christopher, who was born
August 12, 1860. Children — Kenneth McDowell, born November
13, 1886; Hiram Christopher, November 6, 1891.

7. WILLIAM McDOWELL, son of Colonel Abraham and
Martha M. Buford, married, at Lancaster, Kentucky, April 17,
1828, Margaret Eliza, born January 25, 1811, daughter of George
and Eleander Bainbridge Robertson. Children — Martha Mc¬
Dowell, born July 4, 1829; George Robertson, February 11, 1831,
died September 8, 1832; Eleander McIntosh, September 2, T835;
Charles Alexander, September 9, 1837 ; Mary Katherine, August
31, 1839; William Robertson, April 3, 1842; Marcus Bainbridge,

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July 10, 1844; Margaret Elizabeth, born November 19, 1846;
Mary Duke, born December 7, 1850.

William McDowell Buford died at Elkwood, Woodford
County, Kentucky, August 15, 1867. Margaret E. R. Buford

died also at Elkwood, Kentucky, January 27, 1879.

• _ _

William McDowell (Scott) Buford had a charming person¬
ality, being much like his handsome father in appearance and in¬
heriting the lovable and gentle manner of his mother. As a young
man, the costume of the day, knee-breeches, dress coat and dainty
ruffles, lent grace to his stately bearing, and he attracted fav¬
orable attention wherever he appeared. He spent three years at
Yale, and on his return studied law with his future father-in-law,
Judge Robertson, of Lancaster, Kentucky. It was there he met
and married Margaret Eliza Robertson. He never practiced
law, as every instinct led him to follow in the footsteps of his
ancestors, who had loved lands and fine stock.

After his marriage they lived on a farm in Franklin County,
Kentucky, near the old Harmony Church. Here their first two
children were born, but it was far from their old home, and they
found it lonely and uninviting. After his father’s death, in 1834
or 1835, he bought a large tract of land in Woodford County,
Kentucky, near Midway. This he made into a beautiful home,
building a residence then palatial, which he named “Elkwood,”
from the Elkhorn Creek, which almost surrounded the property.
Here all their other children were born and reared amidst sur¬
roundings almost feudal.

“Elkwood” was in the heart of the blue grass country, and
after his home was finished he devoted himself to farming, stock-
raising and the importing and breeding of race horses. Here
were raised some of Kentucky’s most celebrated thorough-breds,
among them Minstrel, Melody, Mollie Jackson, Laura Farris, and
the queen of all, Idlewild. Horse racing (at that time confined
to Virginia and Kentucky) was never profitable; gentlemen bred

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and raised fine horses for the improvement of stock and their own
pleasure.

During the trying times before and during the Civil War
he was a staunch Unionist, and his three sons were in the army
and navy, while his two sons-in-law were in the Southern -Army.

A peculiar state of affairs existed, for a new set of people
had sprung up who were so aggressively loyal that the safety of
many of his old friends (Southern Sympathizers) was menaced.
Feeling that the second commandment, “Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself,” was indeed as binding as the first, he drew
around these a circle of his influence, and all joined forces when
it became necessary to protect themselves against guerillas and
home guards.

He quietly accepted the emancipation of his slaves, feeling
solicitude for them only; many of them never left their home,
and those who did went sorrowfully to worse slavery and degra¬
dation.

He was a man of true grit, tempered with the greatest dis¬
cretion, a leader among his people, commanding love and respect.
William Buford, son of Simeon, was his neighbor; in contradis¬
tinction, William McDowell was called “Scott Billy,” and he
adopted Scott as his middle name. The other William was known
as “Colonel Billy.”

Margaret Eliza Buford was a woman of remarkably strong
characteristics. Born of Scotch-Irish ancestors, she inherited
their noble qualities of thrift, indomitable energy and thought¬
fulness for others. Self-reliant, but thoroughly unselfish and
courageous, she dominated her home by love and tenderness.
She raised a large family, who, none of them, ever became quite
accustomed to being from under her wing. She survived her
husband, and, although everything except the homestead had
gone with the war, she successfully managed the farm until her
death.

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JUDGE GEORGE ROBERTSON

George, son of Alexander and Margaret Robertson, born No¬
vember 18, 1790, married at Lexington, Kentucky, November 28,
1809, to Eleanor McIntosh Bainbridge, who was born at Lake Sen¬
eca, New York, April 17, 1794. She was the daughter of Dr. Peter
Bainbridge, of Lancaster, Kentucky (cousin of Commodore Bain¬
bridge, U. S. Navy), and Eleanor James McIntosh, the only daug-
ter of General Alexander McIntosh, of South Carolina. Children —
Margaret Eliza, born January 25, 1811; Eleanor McIntosh, January
28, 1813; Mary Oden Epps, May 5, 1815, died June 20, 1833; Charlotte
Corday, June 14, 1817; Alexander Hamilton, March 17, 1819; Bain¬
bridge, December 13, 1822, died February 9, 1833; Martha Jane,
July 24, 1824, died May 17, 1826; George S. McKee, November 2,
1827, died December 12, 1832; James Bainbridge, October 4, 1831;
George, Jr. (Boston), born May 12, 1838, died December 12, 1856.

Judge George Robertson died May 16, 1874.

Eleanor Bainbridge Robertson died January 13, 1865.

In 1805-1806 he was at Transylvania University; 1806-09. study¬
ing law at Lancaster, Kentucky; admitted to the bar 1811; declined

appointment as registrar of the Land Office. St. Louis, Missoni i,
1812; prosecuting attorney, Garrard County, Kentucky, and assessor
of direct tax of his congressional district, 1816; elected to Congress,
youngest member in the house, 1818; re-elected to Congress; offered
appointment as governor of Arkansas and the Mission to Colombia
by President Monroe, and was appointed minister to Peru by Presi¬
dent Adams; 1820 elected to Congress for the third term; while in
Congress he was of the committees of internal improvements, of
judiciary and of private land claims, and in 1820 he initiated by
bill the present system of selling public lands; 1821 resumed his
law practice in Lancaster; 1822' resigned his seat in Congress,
declined appointment as attorney-general of Kentucky, tendered by
Governor Adair, and also judgeship of Fayette District; Kentucky
Legislature 1823-27; speaker of the House for three years; 1828
declined the nomination for governor of Kentucky; secretary of
state and appellate judge December 16, 1829; commissioned chief
justice of Kentucky, resigned April 1, 1843; professor of constitu¬
tional law, equity and international law, Transylvania Univernity,
1834-1848; elected to the Legislature 1848; 1851 speaker of the
House; appellate judge and chief justice 1864-71. He died May 16,
1874.

“Kentucky has produced from her soil, distinguished as many
of them have been in every department of life, no son whose name
she will inscribe higher in her list of worthies.”

8. MARTHA McDOWELL, daughter of William McDowell
and Margaret E. R. Buford, married, May 12, 1846, Willis F.

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Jones. Children — William Buford, born May 10, 1847 ; Eliza¬
beth, January 31, 1849; Henry Irwin, May 15, 1851, died April
17, 1858; Bland, February 22, 1854; Ellen Buford, January 19,
1857 ; Florine, January 18, 1860, died November 5, 1862. Willis
F. Jones was killed in the battle of Petersburg, Virginia, serving
on the staff of General Field, Confederate States Army, July,
1862. Marthy McDowell Buford Jones died February 25, 1866.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of Willis F. and Martha Mc¬
Dowell Buford Jones, married, October, 1874, to Samuel T. Leavy,
of Woodford County, Kentucky. Children — George T., born
January 1, 1876; Lawrence, August 7, 1879; Elizabeth Elsie,
July 1, 1883.

9. BLAND, son of Willis F. and Martha McDowell Buford
Jones, married, at Versailles, Kentucky, November 29, 1878, to
Sallie Colvin. Children — Willis 2d, born March 11, 1880; Bland,
Jr., November 6, 1882; Annia Colvin, July 23, 1887. Bland
Jones died January 27, 1890.

9. ELLEN BUFORD, daughter of Willis F. and Martha
McDowell Buford Jones, married, at Versailles, Kentucky, No¬
vember 29, 1877, to Handy Berryman. Children — Elizabeth
(Bessie) born October 18, 1878; Lela, February 10, 1886; Buford,
March 12, 1896.

8. ELEANOR McINTOSH, daughter of William McDowell
and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married October 25, 1853,
to George Whitfield Troutman, of Georgia. Child — William Bain-
bridge, born January 29, 1858, and died. Eleanor McIntosh Bu¬
ford Troutman died February 5, 1858. George W. Troutman
died - . He served in Confederate States army.

8. CHARLES ALEXANDER, son of William McDowell
and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married October 29, 1861,
to Ellen Mathews, who was born November 21, 1841. Children —
John M., born November 8, 1862; Martha Jones, May 25, 1864;
Charles H., August 15, 1866; William S., June 11, 1868, died
August 18, 1870; Marcus Bainbridge, August 26, 1876; Sallie

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M., July 5, 1880, died May 24, 1891; Henry M., April 22, 1882;
Elizabeth R., January 25, 1871.

Charles A. Buford was commissioned major United States
Volunteers, 1861; appointed assistant adjutant-general on Gen¬
eral Nelson’s staff, which position he held at Nelson’s death,
when he was appointed major of Colonel Fry’s Third Kentucky
Regiment and served until after the battle of Corinth, when he
resigned on account of injuries received, from which he event¬
ually died, July 22, 1898.

9. JOHN M., son of Charles A. and Ellen Buford, married,
in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 16, 1890, to Fern K. Peterson, who
was born August 11, 1870. Child — John M. Jr., born December
18, 1893.

9. MARTHA JONES, daughter of Charles A. and Ellen
Buford, married, in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11, 1895, to
W. 0. Pomerade, who was born January 28, 1850. Child — A
girl, born January, 1897.

9. CHARLES H., son of Charles A. and Ellen Buford, mar¬
ried, in Lincoln, Nebraska, September 23, 1890, to Maggie Baker,
who was born November 2, 1869.

9. ELIZABETH R., daughter of Charles A., and Ellen
Mathews Buford, married, December 22, 1897, to Frank M. Cock-
cill. One daughter, born December, 1898.

8. MARY KATHERINE, daughter of William McDowell
and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married, February 24, 1869,
to Dr. Marcus E. Poynter, who died at Midway, Kentucky, April
24, 1889; his wife died January 26, 1923.

8. WILLIAM ROBERTSON, son of William McDowell
and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married Sallie Dobyns, Octo¬
ber 27, 1868. Child — Thomas Dobyns, born September 1, 1869.
William R. Buford is living at 306 Union Avenue, Chattanooga,
Tennessee, age 81 years. His sister, Margaret Elizabeth (Mrs.
Milton P. Craig), at Corpus Christi, Texas, age 76 years, the
only survivors of William McDowell Buford’s family.

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9. THOMAS DOBYNS, son of William Robertson and Sal-
lie Dobyns Buford, was successor of Captain Marcus Bainbridge
Buford in the Society of Cincinnati, and is also a member of Sons
of The Revolution.

8. CAPTAIN MARCUS BAINBRIDGE, son of William
McDowell and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married, at St.
Paul’s Church, Erie, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1870, to Mary
Jordan Reed Hunter. Captain Marcus Bainbridge Buford was
the author and compiler of the first BUFORD BOOK of which
due credit has been acknowledged ; was a cadet at United States
Naval Academy, Newport, Rhode Island, November 9, 1861 ; grad¬
uated at Annapolis, Maryland, October 25, 1865; midshipman,
China Station, 1865-1869; promoted to ensign December 20,
1866 ; master, March 12, 1868 ; lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; United
States steamship Michigan, June to October, 1869; Washington,
District of Columbia, October, 1869, to August, 1870; European
station, 1871-1874; United States steamship Michigan, October,
1874, to October, 1875; North Atlantic squadron, October, 1875,
to 1877 ; Washington, District of Columbia, Navy Yards, 1877 to
1880 ; Pacific station, 1880 to 1883 ; promoted to lieutenant-com¬
mander October 28, 1881 ; Washington, District of Columbia,
Navy Yard, January, 1880, to December, 1884; lighthouse in¬
spector, headquarters, New Orleans, Louisiana, January, 1885,
to April, 1886; resigned January 1, 1888; commissioned volun¬
teer lieutenant-commander May 12, 1898 ; in the navy for the
Spanish- American War, commander United States Steamer Abar-
enda; mustered out January 7, 1899, at the close of the war;
entered the United States Army Transport Service, as captain,
March 20, 1899, commanding transport Grant to July, 1900;
commanding transport Thomas, since.

Marcus Bainbridge Buford died in Paris, France, during
the World War, December 8, 1914, age 70 years. His wife, Mary
Jordan Hunter Buford, died, Paris, France, in September, 1909.

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DR. FREDERICK WINSTON MILLER

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Both remains were brought back to Erie, Pennsylvania, for in¬
terment.

Mr. Buford was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati
and Richmond, Virginia. After his death his nephew, Thomas
Dobyns Buford, son of William Robertson and Sallie Dobyns
Buford, succeeded him in this Fraternity.

8. MARTHA ELIZABETH, daughter of William McDowell
and Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married, July 15, 1873, to
Milton P. Craig. Children — Margaret Robertson, born July 28,
1874; Mary, November 2, 1877 ; William Buford, March 6, 1881.

9. MARGARET R., daughter of Milton P. and Margaret
E. Buford Craig, married Benton J. Hickman, at Versailles, Ken¬
tucky, in 1879.

8. MARY DUKE, daughter of William McDowell and
Margaret E. Robertson Buford, married, November 12, 1880, to
Lee Miller, of Washington, District of Columbia. Children —
Mary Duke, born October 13, 1881, married Mr. Shapleigh, as¬
sists in the office of United States Shipping Boerd Emergency
Fleet Corporation, Washington, District of Columbia ; Katheryne
Gear, born July 3, 1883, died in October, 1921; Rozina Angelina,
September 28, 1885, lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Margaret
B., August 9, 1887, died in November, 1921 ; Charles Ligaedi,
October 20, 1891, died in 1915; Basil Duke, June, 1897, lives in
Los Angeles, California.

Lee Miller died in January, 1919, and his wife died in Octo¬
ber, 1919.

MILLER FAMILY

Dr. Frederick Winston Miller, Sr., born May 15, r795, in the
state of New York, married, May t5, r8I5, to Mary Johnson of
Washington, D. C., died April 22, 1855, in Waterford, Pennsylvania.
He was the third physician to practice in Waterford, Pennsylvania,
where he lived from 1827 till his death. He served on the staff of
General Jerrmiah Miller during the War of 1812 (enlisted at 17
years); he was collector of the Port of Blakeley, Alabama (now
Mobile, Alabama), in 1822; was commissioned Captain of Baldwin

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Battalion, 9th Brigade, 4th Division of Militia of Alabama, March
15. 1822, by the Governor, Israel Perkins, the State being Cahabe,
Alabama; he was appointed Indian Agent in 1834; was commis¬
sioned Assistant Surgeon (under act approved June 15, 1846), Jan¬
uary 20, 1847, by W. L. Marcy, Secretary of War (signed) James
K. Polk, and commissioned Surgeon, under law to rank as such
(Major) from March 3, 1848, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, March 3, 1848, signed as before, W. L. Marcy, Secretary
of War — James K. Polk. He served through the Mexican War, en¬
tered the City of Mexico with General Winfield Scott and was a
personal friend of Andrew Jackson.

Dr. John Pierce Miller, second son of Dr. Frederick Winston
Miller, was born in Mobile, Alabama, where his parents had gone
from Washington, D. C. The family later returned to Washington
and then went to Waterford, Pennsylvania. He married Rosina
Johnson of Washington, D. C., the daughter of Henry Johnson, who
was associated with the Post Office Department the greater part
of his life.

At the time Dr. Miller and Mrs. Miller were married they went
to live, began housekeeping, at a place on Pennsylvania Avenue and
Twelfth Street and lived there for a period of time. After they
moved the Kirkwood House (Hotel) was built and that Hotel stood
for a long time and then was torn down and the Raleigh Hotel
erected on the same site, which is there at the present time. It is
just across the street from the Post Office Department and three
blocks above is the New Willard Hotel, all right in the heart of
Washington.

When the Civil War opened Dr. Miller threw his fortune with
the South and went with the 7th Virginia, Company A. He served
with General John Mosby, Joe WTheeler and General John Morgan,
doing gallant service. He also served in a detached capacity both
as a soldier and surgeon, going north often for medical supplies
for the Confederates, sick Confederates. He was captured twice,
and the last time he was taken he was on his way into Washington
to see his little family. He was taken to the Old Capitol Prison
and confined there for some months and later condemned to die.
but through the efforts of his splendid wife and helpmeet, and
other members of his family, he was paroled and sent north, where
he had many hardships, and his family suffered greatly during this
time. Broken in health, due to hardships of the War, after the
War he went to Kentucky where he was killed by accident soon
after reaching that state.

Dr. J. P. Miller and Mrs. Miller had four sons, Frank, Lee,
Charles Lesardi and John Pierce. John Pierce resides in Washing¬
ton, D. C., at the present time. He is the only living member of
this family.

Lee Miller, second son of Dr. John Pierce Miller, was born in
Erie, Pennslyivania, October 1, 1854. He never lived in Erie as his
family, parents, resided in Washington, D. C. He spent a portion

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of his youth in Woodford County, Kentucky, later going to Wash¬
ington, D. C., where he went to Georgetown College for a period and
then was sent out by the United States Geological Survey, under
Clarence King, to take charge of his employees in Old Mexico, and
he was one of the premiers in the new opening of that Republic.

General Marcus J. Wright was interested with Mr. Clarence
M. King at that time. These men went to Mexico to reopen silver
mines for the U. S. Government. And Lee Miller brought back
specimen ores for the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C.

His work on the East Portal of the Southern Railway Tunnel
through Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, also engineering done,
bringing the tunnel together, will stand as a monument to his abil¬
ity for a long time to come. Also Stringers Ridge Tunnel through
Walden’s Ridge at Chattanooga shows his skill as well as work
done on the million dollar Power plant at Jackson, Georgia.

Just before his death he was Highway Commissioner for Ken¬
tucky and had been constructing highways through Metcalf County,
Kentucky, but he passed before this work was completed.

He died as he had lived, full of activity, working up to the
time of his death.

He was a good father, a most genial and companionable man,
and honorable in all things, always doing things constructive and
never destructive — a builder.

He died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, after a
brief illness, just shortly after he had come up from Metcalf County,
and was buried in the Lexington Cemetery, where his wife, Mary
Duke Buford, was laid beside him eight months later.

Lee Miller had six children, Mary Beaufort, Katherine McDowell,
Rozina Angelique, Margaret Bainbridge, Charles Lesardi and Basil
Duke. Charles Lesardi, Margaret Bainbridge and Katherine Mc¬
Dowell are all dead. Rozina Angelique lives in Chattanooga, Marie
Beaufort Shapleigh in Washington, D. C,, and Basil Duke in Los
Angeles, California.

Lee Miller died January 19, 1919, and his beloved wife, Mary
Duke Buford Miller, died October 3, 1919.

Jamen Miller, great uncle of Lee Miller, was a man of note.
He was the Hero of the Battle of Lundy Lane, and when told by
his superior officer to take the Battery, he replied, “I’ll try, Sir,’’
and these words of his — this sentence — is the motto of the New
Hampshire State Flag. He was afterwards the first governor of
Arkansas, and Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of him in the “Scarlet
Letter.”

Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, was a cousin of Lee
Miller, and quite well known as a writer both in the West and East,
especially in California, as the State of California made a memorial
of his famous cabin that once stood on Meridian Hill in Washington.
California put the cabin in Rock Creek Park. He lived in Wash-
ton for a long time; also wrote for the Washington Post.

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THE LESARDI FAMILY

Jean Antoine Lesardi (called De Severin, during the French
Revolution, as he had to take another name for protection during
that time), was the son of Jean Baptiste Lesardi of Turin, Province
of Piedmont, Italy. He married at Camagnole, Italy, to Elizabeth
Negri. They had three children, Catherine Angelique, Victoria
Pauline, and Charles Boniventure. He took a leading part in the
Revolution, always defending the Royal Family. After the Fall
of the Royalty he threw his fortune with Napoleon the First. He
had charge of the Quartermaster Department and was with Napol¬
eon in many campaigns. He served well. His regiment was the
21st Regiment of Dragoons. He died before the fall of Napoleon,
his death due to many hardships of the Napoleonic Wars.

His death was reported to the Emperor Napoleon by Captain
Georges, and his right name was given, Jean Antoine Lesardi. He
was born in 1772 and died at Saintis, 1813.

Following his death his widow, Elizabeth Lesardi, came to
America, leaving France March 27, 1817, her passport being dated
that date. With her three children she came direct to Washington,
D. C., and as she had ample means she at once bought a home.
She bought the place called “Widow’s Mite.” This place, estate,
is one of the most beautiful in Washington today, and has been
recently bought by the Masonic Order on which to build a temple,
and it will be called Temple Heights.

At the time that Mrs. Lesardi bought this place it had more
acreage than at the present time and there were two adjoining
farms. Ivalorama was one, and the other one was Holomede. Both
of these have been platted and apartments built on them. There
is a wonderful legend, story, about this place of Mrs. Lesardi’s, and
Widow’s Mite is the name of it to this day. This is the legend:

This from the Evening Sta?\ May 5, 1877, copied from the
Advocate ,” under title, “The Story of an Oak.” “The Council Oak,”
a great tree, still stands to guard the place. The story is that of
a white woman, a Mrs. Noyes, and her husband and two children
taken, captured by the Indians. The husband was killed and one
of the children, but she and her baby girl were spared. She
was taken to the hilltop where dwelt Monnacasset, Chief of the Ana-
costas. Monnacassett offered her her freedom to go and come as the
other women of his tribe if she would become his squaw. This she
indignantly refused to do. As she would not become his squaw he
told her she was his prisoner, and said, “You shall not wander
beyond the shade of this Oak (the Council Oak).” Years passed and
the baby, Gwawa, grew into little girlhood, and her playmate, Y
Tschagarag, a captive white boy. Then came a clash between the
Indians and the white men. This time the Indians were defeated
and Monnacasset was killed and a treaty between the remaining
Indians and the white men was signed under this Oak. Mrs. Noyes

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acting as interpreter. The Indians took Tschagarag with them —
he chose to go with them. Several of the white men offered Mrs.
Noyes a home but she would accept none but the one that a Mr.
Cochrane made, who said he would build a small house for her
under the shadow of the Oak. The prison Oak, the cabin, was
built, and she lived there many years with her colored servant.
Her daughter grew up and one day Tschagarag, with a new name',
Davi,d Noorse, came back to visit them. He had been recaptured
by white men, who had taken him to New York where he had been
educated as an architect. So David and Gwawa Hope were mar¬
ried. Two years after Gwawa’s marriage Mrs. Noyes died, and the
will she left is given in detail: “I, Magdalena Noyes, bequeath my
daughter, Gwawa, and her husband, Tschagarag, all my property,
consisting of land, the house I live in being the center thereof,
the house and all therein contained, furniture, personal effects,
belonging to me. And if contentment, the germ of happiness, be
transferable, may you receive.

“I have also three requests which I beg you to fulfill; the first
is to retain our colored servant, that is, provide amply for him in
old age; the second, to bury me at the base of the hill on which
stands our dwelling; third, is to regard the Oak which overspreads
our cottage as a sacred relic; cherish it through life as a talisman
of a resigned sufferer. And should you be blessed with offspring
instill them with reverence for the tree as will transmit from gen¬
eration to generation. These fulfilled, accept my thanks and con¬
sider the little I give you, dear children, as the Widow’s Mite to
her posterity.

“Your Affectionate Mother, Magdalena Noyen.”

Mrs. Lesardi lived there until her death in 1852, and one of
her granddaughters, Meme Johnson, was born there. Both Mrs.
Lesardi and her daughter, Mrs. Kinchee, and her son-in-law, Mr.
Kinchee, were buried at the foot, base, of the hill, in the family
burying ground, and long after a street had to be made, Florida
Avenue was put through the cemetery and the bodies had to be
removed, and they now rest in Rock Creek Cemetery.

Mrs. Lesardi had three daughters, Mrs. Henry Johnson (Cath¬
erine), Mrs. Ritter and Mrs. Kinchee, and one son, Charles Boni-
venture, who died first. Mrs. Johnson was the mother of Rozina
Johnson, the wife of Dr. John Pierce Miller. Lee Miller was
their son.

JOHNSON FAMILY

The Johnson family is one of the old families of America.
Mary Johnson, the wife of Dr. Frederick Winston Miller, came from
Maryland and was of the family of Maryland Johnsons, and the
first Governor of Maryland was her kinsman. This man Thomas
Johnson was the first Governor of Maryland, and the home of this
man still stands at Frederick, Maryland. Rose Hill Manor is the

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MARY BUFORD DUKE

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name of the estate. Thomas Johnson was a General of the Revo¬
lutionary War. He was born November 4, 1732, in Calvert County,
Maryland, the son of Thomas Johnson and Dorcas Sedgwick. He
was married February 16, 1776, to Ann Jennings, only daughter of
Thomas Jennings, of Annapolis, Maryland. Louise Catherine John¬
son, the wife of John Quincy Adams, also was of this Johnson fam- {
ily. John Quincy Adams, President of the United States.

7. MARY, daughter of Colonel Abraham and Martha Mc¬
Dowell Buford, married, February 5, 1822, to James Keith Duke,
who was born March 12, 1799. Children — Abraham Buford,
born November 25, 1822; Basil, February 28, 1824; William,
April 17, 1825; Charlotte, December 17, 1826; Mary Buford,
September 27, 1828, died June 16, 1878; Martha McDowell, June
25, 1830; Henrietta, July 20, 1835; Carolina, January 10, 1838;
James Keith, Jr., September 2, 1839, and Lucy, July 13, 1842.

James Keith Duke died August 2, 1863. Mary Buford Duke
died April 1, 1891.

8. ABRAHAM BUFORD, son of James K. and Mary Bu¬
ford Duke, married, first, Charlotte Payne, October 20, 1853.
Children — James Keith 3d, born December 18, 1856; Kate, June
9, 1860. Abraham B., married for second wife, Annie Arm¬
strong, February 9, 1864. Child — Buford Duke, born February,
1869, and died August 4, 1869.

Abraham Buford Duke died June 28. 1875. Annie Arm¬
strong Duke died September 29, 1886.

9. JAMES KEITH, 3d, son of Abraham Buford and Char¬
lotte Payne Duke, married, June 9, 1880, to Mrs. Mary Fernan¬
des. Children — Robert Keith, born June 3, 1882, died January
14, 1883 ; Buford Kerr, March 29, 1884.

9. KATE, daughter of Abraham Buford and Charlotte
Payne Duke, married Henry P. Chenowith, June 8, 1882. Children
— Buford Duke, born January 17, 1885; Julia Shultz, October 25,
1886; Annie Armstrong, May 15, 1891.

8. BASIL, son of James K. and Mary Buford Duke, mar¬
ried Adelaide Anderson, April 10, 1851. Children — Henry B.,
born December 5, 1854, and James Clay, April 26, 1855.

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Basil Duke died June 20, 1885.

9. HENRY B., son of Basil and Adelaide Duke, married
Susan Waddell, November 9, 1881. Child — William W., born
October 18, 1882. Susan Waddell Duke died July 23, 1884, and
Henry B. Duke married for second wife, Eva Gentry.

9. JAMES CLAY, son of Basil and Adelaide Duke, married
Nellie Morgan Farrar, October 26, 1881. Child — Sallie F., born
August 18, 1882.

8. WILLIAM, son of James K. and Mary Buford Duke,
married, January 27, 1848, to Carrie P. Hickman, who was born
November 21, 1829. (See Hickman John Buford, of Simeon).
Children — Mary, born July 5, 1850; Charlotte, January 23, 1854;
Carrie, October 17, 1855; James K., 4th, August 4, 1857 ; Mar¬
garet, September 27, 1859; William, Jr., September 15, 1861;
Martha Rowland, September 11, 1864; Lucy S., August 27, 1866.
Carrie P. H. Duke died September 23, 1866. William Duke mar¬
ried for second wife, Ella Duerson, July 22, 1868, who was born
May 1, 1842, and died November 13, 1892.

William Duke died January 22, 1896.

9. CHARLOTTE, daughter of William and Carrie P. H.
Duke, married C. L. Chrisman, November 21, 1872.

9. CARRIE, daughter of William and Carrie P. H. Duke,
married William M. Kenny. She died March 25, 1896.

9. MARGARET, daughter of William and Carrie P. H.
Duke, married Edwin C. Roberts, May 19, 1880.

9. WILLIAM, JR., son of William and Carrie P. H. Duke,
married Henrietta Stonestreet, March 14, 1887.

9. MARTHA ROWLAND, daughter of William and Carrie
P. H. Duke, married Lawson Edward Tarlton, December 5, 1893.

8. CHARLOTTE, daughter of James and Mary Buford
Duke, married Rev. E. G. Strahan, July 5, 1853. Children —
Mary, David, Caroline and James D. Charlottee Duke Strahan
died July 24, 1877. Rev. E. G. Strahan died September 12, 1874.

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9. MARY, Daughter of Rev. E. G. and Charlotte Duke
Strahan, married Samuel Warren, June 5, 1883.

9. CAROLINE, daughter of Rev. E. G. and Charlotte Duke
Strahan, married Isaac S. Warren, June 22, 1880.

8. MARTHA McDOWELL, daughter of James K. and
Mary Buford Duke, married, May 9, 1854, to John Buford, 3rd,
son of John and Ann Bannister Buford. Children — James Duke,
born July 26, 1855, died April 5, 1874; Pattie McDowell, October
14, 1857, died July 28, 1863.

General John Buford died December 16, 1863. Martha Duke
Buford, married September 11, 1873, to B. H. McGown, who was
born October 29, 1806, and died August 29, 1881.

8. HENRIETTA, daughter of James K. and Mary Buford
Duke, married, May 1, 1856, to Edgar Keenon, who was born
August 3, 1833. Children — Mary Duke, born July 30, 1857 ;
James D., January 22, 1859; Jennie, April 13, 1861; Adam C.,
July 19, 1862; Edgar, Jr., June 24, 1864; Bessie C., June 2, 1871.
Edgar Keenon died December 4, 1882.

9. MARY DUKE, daughter of Edgar and Henrietta Duke
Keenon, married, March 25, 1880, to Robert A. Shoemaker, who
was born March 27, 1854. Children — Sarita, born February 11,
1885; Joe Henry, October 13, 1890.

9. JAMES D., son of Edgar and Henrietta Duke Keenon,
married Annie Robinson, May 27, 1891.

9. JENNIE, daughter of Edgar and Henrietta Duke
Keenon, married, January 1, 1884, to John W. Penn, who was
born April 17, 1839. Children — John B., born February 1, 1885 ;
Joe H., July 13, 1886; Edgar K., August 24, 1888.

9. ADAM C., son of Edgar and Henrietta Duke Keenon,
married Ida Wood, October 24, 1884. Children — Abbie, born
January 15, 1887 ; Robert L., April 3, 1889; Edgar 3rd, June 12,
1894.

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9. EDGAR, JR., son of Edgar and Henrietta Duke Keenon,
married Annie Becker, June 1, 1884. Child — Jennie, born April
3, 1887.

8. CAROLINE, daughter of James K. and Mary Buford
Duke, married, October 2, 1856, to Green Clay Smith, who was
born July 2, 1830. Children — Eliza C., Mary B., James D., Caro¬
line and Green Clay.

General Green Clay Smith died June 29, 1895. He was born
July 2, 1832, in Richmond, Kentucky. He was the son of John
Speed and Eliza Lewis Clay Smith, who was the daughter of
General Green Clay. He graduated at the Transylvania Law
Department in 1852, and practiced law a number of years in
Covington, Kentucky. At the age of sixteen he went to the War
with Mexico as second lieutenant in Captain James Stone’s com¬
pany. He was offered a position on General Marshall’s staff
for gallant and meritorious conduct in capturing a noted Mexican
guerilla and three hundred prisoners, with one hundred men.
He volunteered in the Civil War as private soldier in Captain
Foley’s regiment; was appointed major Third Kentucky Cavalry;
resigned to accept colonelcy of the Fourth Kentucky regiment;
Brigadier-general, 1862; wounded at Lebanon, Tennessee; de¬
feated Forrest at Rutherford Creek, Tennessee; promoted to
brevet major-general for gallant and meritorious service; re¬
signed, 1863, to take his seat in Congress, to which he had been
elected while on the field; elected second time; resigned to ac¬
cept position of governor of Montana, appointed by President
Johnson ; resigned In 1869 to enter the Baptist ministry, in which
capacity he served for twenty years. In 1876 he was candidate
of the Prohibition party for president.

9. ELIZA C., daughter of Green Clay and Caroline Duke
Smith, married James Hawlins, June 8, 1881.

8. JAMES K. JR., son of James K. and Mary Buford Duke,
married Pauline Bruce. Children — Mary, James, 5th, Henry
Bruce and Richard. James K. Duke, Jr., died October 7, 1894.

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9. MARY, daughter of James K. Jr., and Pauline Bruce
Duke, married Fletcher Cowherd of Kansas City, Missouri, Jan¬

uary, 1886.

8. LUCY, daughter of James K. and Mary Buford Duke,
married John A. Steele, August 15, 1866. Children — Mary Duke,
born March 7, 1869; Theophilus, March 2, 1871, died June 10,
1871. Lucy Duke Steele died March 10, 1871. John A. Steele
married second wife, Frances, daughter of John C. Breckinridge.

9. MARY DUKE, daughter of John and Lucy Duke Steele,
married Theodore Hams, of Versailles, Kentucky, June 24, 1897.

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6. CAPTAIN HENRY AND MILDRED BLACKBURN

BUFORD

The picture on the right is the home of Captain Henry Bu¬
ford, built before the Revolution. The one on the left was built
by Captain Pascal, his youngest son. These buildings still stand.
There is a two-story frame building on the left of the brick, back
and down the slope a little way is the large dining room with a
veranda all around. In earlier days there was a large kitchen a
little further down the slope. Then the cabins for the negroes.
On down the slope one would go to the lovely old spring house
with its cool, crystal water flowing in a continual stream from the
big spring above. Up the slope on the other side is the well kept
place, the City of the Dead, where, for several centuries, the
family have been laid to rest. We regret that we cannot give a
better view of it, but this is the best we can do.

6. HENRY, son of John and Judith Early Beauford, born
in Culpeper County, Virginia, September 19, 1751, married,
March 22, 1771, to Mildred Blackburn, of Norfolk, Virginia.
Children — Elizabeth, born August 8, 1773; Thomas, March 11,
1776; Abraham, December 13, 1778; Henry, Jr., February 17,
1781 ; Prudence, July 23, 1783 ; Paschal, February 14, 1791 ; Julia
Ann, April 17, 1793; Mary Malinda (Polly), July 14, 1795.
Mildred Blackburn Buford died Easter Monday, April 19, 1802.
Captain Henry Buford married for his second wife, Jane Kent
Quirk, October 17, 1805, widow of Major Thomas Quirk, of the
Revolution.

Captain Henry Buford died at “Locust Level,” Bedford
County, Virginia, December 31, 1814. He was allowed as captain,
under date of November 6, 1777, for pay, rations, etc., for his
company, Bedford County, Virginia, £388, 11s, Id — “Archives of
the Virginia State Militia, December 23, 1776, to December 18,
1788.” He was one of the presiding Magistrates of Bedford
County in 1782, and high sheriff from 1790 to 1795.

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Captain Henry Buford assisted in establishing American In¬
dependence during the War of the Revolution, as the record of his
services, which follows, will show. The records in the Clerk’s

Office of the County Court of Bedford County, Virginia, show

that Henry Buford was Captain of a Military Company during
the Revolutionary War; those on file in the City of Richmond,
Virginia, show that he and his company were paid for their
service. The Order Book (not paged) of Bedford County Court
of January 28, 1777, show that Henry Buford and others were
recommended as suitable persons to be appointed as Justices of
the Peace, and that he qualified as such, August 25, 1777, and
thence forward acted in that capacity. The following is a memo¬
randum of the authority of the foregoing statements: See the
records of the County Court of Bedford County in the order
book of the court, July 28, 1777 ; see the Revolutionary Archives
of State of Virginia on file at the Virginia State Library, Rich¬
mond, Virginia; see Order Book (not paged) of Bedford County
Court, Bedford City, Virginia; January 28, 1777, and August
25, 1777 ; also Virginia Magazine, Vol. VI., page 403. These
dates are all that is necessary for one if he wish to join the or¬
ganization of the Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution.
Trace your line back.

Something very remarkable — John and Judith Early Beau-
ford had six sons, and they were all officers in the Revolutionary
War, namely: Captain John Thomas. Captain James, Captain
William, Colonel Abraham, Captain Henry and Ensign Simeon
Buford.

All these lines can be traced back, as nearly every other
branch of the Buford family may trace their ancestors back to
the men who did service in the Revolution.

BLACKBURN

William and Elizabeth Blackburn, of Christchurch Parish. Mid¬
dlesex County. Virginia. Children — Elizabeth and Martha, born
September 26. 1714; William. June 12. 1717; Hannah. August 30.
1719; Thomas, July 30, 1721, died September 25, 1727, and Edward,
November 30. 1729.

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Edward, son of William and Elizabeth Blackburn, married Ann
— . Children — George, born January 16, 1746 or 1747; William,

October 18, 1749 ; Julius, who married Miss Scruggs and Mildred who
married Henry Buford.

George, son of Edward and Ann Blackburn, married, October 12,
1771, Prudence Berry, born November 5, 1754. They went from Vir¬
ginia to Woodford County, Kentucky. Children — George, Luke,
Jonathan, who married Prudence Buford, who was the father of Cap¬
tain William, and progenitor of the St. Louis family; William,
father of Henry Churchhill, of Illinois; Edward, of Woodford County,
Kentucky, known as “Uncle Ned,” father of Dr. Luke P., late gover¬
nor of Kentucky, of Joseph C. S., United States Senator from Ken¬
tucky, and James, late secretary of the state of Kentucky, Mrs.
White, Mrs. Holloway, and Dr. Churchhill J., who married Lydia
Paxtin, and was the father of Frank A.

Other Blackburns of Middlesex County, Dorthy, died January 5,
1726; Ann, married, July 21, 1728; Joshua Allford, married, July 15,
1769, Jermiah Spencer; Rogers, married, first, December 24, 1770,
Elizabeth Owen, and second, December 30, 1779, Jane Hackney; Eliza¬
beth, married, December 3, 1785, to John Hodges; Jean, married,
February, 1790, to Nelson Daniel; Pauline Anderson, married, Jan¬
uary 10, 1797, to Sallie Hodges; Benjamin, granted pension Decem¬
ber, 1793, for service at Point Pleasant.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of Henry and Mildred Black¬
burn Buford, married, April 1, 1790, to John Hopkins Otey.
Children — Parmelia, John Buford, Prudence Buford, Harriet P.,
Nelson Horatio, Eliza J., Julia Ann, Edwin W.

OTEY

Dr. William Leftwick Otey married Kittie Logwood. Their
daughter, Nannie L., married James B. McClellan, and died October
11, 1862. Kittie Logwood was first cousin of Mary Otey Left¬
wick, who married Pleasant M. Goggin (son of Stephen and
Rachel Mooreman Goggin, the grandparents of Honorable William
L. Goggin), brother of Parmelia Goggin, who married Samuel Clem¬
ens, from whom Mark Twain descended. Dr. William L. was the son
of Frazier and Mildred Leftwich Otey. Frazier was the son of Cap¬
tain John Otey, a soldier in the Revolution, who moved from* New
Kent to Bedford about 1775-1777. His wife was Mary Hopkins, born
July 14, 1739, daughter of John, son of Dr. Arthur Hopkins, ancestors
of Bishop Otey of Missouri.

8. PARMELIA, daughter of John H. and Elizabeth B. Otey,
married James Gwatkin. Children — Charles Anderson, Cather¬
ine and James (died young).

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9. CHARLES ANDERSON, son of James and Parmelia
B. Gwatkin, married, October 7, 1845, to Mary Isabella Black¬
ford. Children — Thomas Blackford, Charles Otey, Mary Stern-
berger, Caroline Elizabeth, Royall, Nannie McClellan and William
Graham. They live in Richmond, Virginia.

10. CHARLES OTEY, son of Charles A. and Mary B.
Gwatkin, married Nettie Kline.

10. JAMES, son of Charles A. and Mary B. Gwatkin, mar¬
ried Balling Weisiger, of New York.

10. MARY STERNBERGER, daughter of Charles A. and
Mary B. Gwatkin, married Charles P. Stokes. They live in Rich¬
mond.

10. CAROLINE, daughter of Charles A. and Mary B.
Gwatkin, married Fielding Lewis Marshall, Washington, D. C.

10. NANNIE McCLELLAN, daughter of Charles and Mary
B. Gwatkin, married Frederick Lewis Curtler, of Worchester,
England.

10. WILLIAM GRAHAM, son of Charles A. and Mary B.
Gwatkin, married Carlotta Smith, Richmond, Virginia.

9. CATHERINE, daughter of James and Parmelia 0.
Gwatkin, married Calvin Thompson, Independence, Missouri.

8. JOHN BUFORD, son of John W. and Elizabeth B. Otey,
married Angelina M. Brown. Children — Morris B., died in
1818; John William, Harriet Emeline, James Coleman, Robert
Munroe, Julia H., Lucy W., Emory Kane and Virginius Black¬
burn.

9. SARAH ANN, daughter of John B. and Angelina B.
Otey, married, first, January 25, 1838, to Samuel L. Kennedy-,
married, second, Samuel H. Saunders, Sr. Children — Albion
Roberson, born March 31, 1845; Virginius Otey, May 18, 1847;
Thomas Evans and Samuel H. (twins), October 19, 1851 ; Evelyn
Cameron, October 13, 1858, and Ernest Linwood, September 22,
1860. They live at Otterville, Cooper County, Missouri.

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10. ALBION R., son of Samuel H., Sr., and Sarah O.
Saunders, married, November 4, 1880, to Eliza N. Alexander.
Children — Edith Carrington, born August 3, 1881 ; Ernest Lin-
wood, March, 1883; John Otey, April 23, 1886; Lewis Ames,
October 3, 1888.

10. VIRGINIUS OTEY, son of Samuel, Sr., and Sarah O.
Saunders, married, February 12, 1873, to Ada C. Alexander.
Children — Shields Alexander, born April 20, 1874, died July 31,
1887; Virginius Otey, March 19, 1878; Lola Ada, February 1,
1881 ; Paul, 1883.

10. THOMAS EVANS, son of Samuel H. and Sarah O.
Saunders, married, October 28, 1877, Octavia B. Norman. Child
— Albion Roberson, born April 10, 1879. Octavia Norman,
died May 16, 1881.

10. SAMUEL H., JR., son of Samuel H., Sr., and Sarah O.
Saunders, married, May 10, 1881, to Martha Howell. Children—
May T., born February 20, 1862; Sarah Ann, January 7, 1885;
Henry James, January 17, 1886.

Samuel H. Saunders, Jr., died October 21, 1886.

10. EVELYN CAMERON, daughter of Samuel H., Sr., and
Sarah O. Saunders, married, March 16, 1888, to Richard H.
Bente.

10. ERNEST LINWOOD, son of Samuel H., Sr., and Sarah
O. Saunders, married, February 20, 1889, to Mary C. David. Son
— Ernest Linwood, Jr., born November 10, 1890.

9. JOHN WILLIAM, son of John B. and Angelina B. Otey,
married Frances Gwatkin. No children.

9. HARRIET C., daughter of John B. and Angelina M. B.
Otey, married, 1842, James B. Ward. Children — James Beverly,
born in 1843, died in 1856; Ella Risque, Adeline Virginia, John
Gordon, Ferdinand Kinnerly (died in 1852), Annie Morris, Julia
Herbert, Charles Bell, William Goggin, Otey Beverly and Mary
Beverly (died young). They live in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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10. ELLA RISQUE, daughter of James B. and Harriet E.
0. Ward, married Alanson N. A., Caukins, Florida.

10. ADELINA V., daughter of James B. and Harriet E.
O. Ward, married, April 21, 1869, Thomas E. McVeigh. Children
— James Beverly, born April 11, 1870, died July 1, 1870; Ella
Gordon, August 12, 1871; John Herbert, February 27, 1874;
Henry Ward, June 19, 1876; Lelia Lee, June 1, 1882; Frances
Kennerly, January 26, 1885. All unmarried and live in Lynch¬
burg, Virginia.

10. JOHN G., son of James B. and Harriet E. O. Ward,
married, November 13, 1873, Ella Potter. Children — Caroline,
Emma, Beverly, Wright, Mary, Alice and Ella Van.

10. ANNIE M., daughter of James B. and Harriet E. O.
Ward, married July 19, 1876, Francis Johnson. Children —
Harriet Louise, Elizabeth Risque, Florence Beverly, Ruby Mor¬
ris and Francis Otey. They live in Florida.

10. JULIA H., daughter of James B. and Harriet E. O.
Ward, married, October 13, 1881, William D. Jones. Children —
Thomas Winston, born April 11, 1883; Julia Herbert, November
21, 1885; Harriet Elizabeth, December 1, 1887; William Dudley,
September 5, 1891. They live in Lynchburg, Virginia.

10. CHARLES BELL, son of James B. and Harriet E. O.
Ward, married, April 27, 1887, Helen N. Cartwell. Child —
Thomas Otey, lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.

10. WILLIAM GOGGIN, son of James B. and Harriet E.
O. Ward, married Jane Kimball. No children.

10. OTEY BEVERLY, son of James B. and Harriet E. O.
Ward, married, November 27, 1885, Kate Shivers. Alabama.

9. JAMES C., son of John B. and Angelina M. Otey, mar¬
ried, first, in 1852, Elizabeth Claibourne. Child — Lucy Lee.
Married, second, December 23, 1855, Annie M. Patterson. Child¬
ren — Richard Cleveland and Walter Whitfield. They live in
California.

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9. ROBERT MONROE, son of James B. and Angelina E.

Otey, married Helen - . Children — Sarah Aneglside, Lu¬

cinda Ellen, Ollie Olander Osbourne and Robert Morris. They
live at Union post office, Union County, California.

10. SARAH A., daughter of Robert M. and Helen. Otey,
married Isaac Addington.

9. JULIA H., daughter of John B. and Angelina M. Otey,
married October 20, 1857, Morris Leftwich. Children — Warwick
Otey, died January 3, 1859; Willie Morris and Brenda Julia.
They live in St. Louis, Missouri.

10. WILLIS MORRIS, son of Morris and Julia H. 0. Left¬
wich, married, December 1, 1886, Julia A. Mulhall. Children —
Burril Otey, Willie Morris (died), Julia Amelia and Susan Mil¬
dred.

10. BRENDA JULIA, daughter of Morris and Julia H. O.
Leftwich, married, July 16, 1890, Henry Clay Alexander. Child —
Morris Leftwich.

9. LUCY W., daughter of John B. and Angelina M. Otey,
married Charles H. Kent. Children — Robert and Annie. They
live in Pennsylvania.

9. EMORY KANE, son of John B. and Angelina M. B.
Otey, married Sarah Allen. They live in Missouri.

9. VIRGINIUS BLACKBURN, son of John B. and Ange¬
lina H. Otey, married, January 4, 1869, Emma Herndon. Child¬
ren — Annie Mitchell, Julia Emory, Laura Virginia, Virginius
Blackburn, Jr., Marshall Otey. They live in Missouri.

10. JULIA EMORY, daughter of Virginius and Emma H.
Otey, married Artie E. Cleveland, September 24, 1892.

8. PRUDENCE BUFORD, daughter of John H. and Eliza¬
beth B. Otey, married Isaac N. Otey.

8. HARRIET P., daughter of John H., and Elizabeth B.
Otey, married William N. Sherman, December 22, 1817. Child¬
ren — Henry Hopkins, America Cornelia and Virginia Adams.
They live in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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9. HENRY, H., son of William N. and Harriet O. Sherman,
married Frances Merrill, June 17, 1858. Children — John Wil¬
liam, Henry Hopkins, Harriet Otey and Edward Buford. Home,
Lynchburg, Virginia.

10. JOHN WILLIAM, son of Henry H. and Frances M.
Sherman, married Anne Helbig, January 4, 1893.

10. HARRIET O., daughter of Henry H. and Frances M.
Sherman, married Henry M. Ford, November 22, 1882. Children
— Louise Duncastle and Joseph Edwin.

9. AMERICA C., daughter of William N. and Harriet 0.
Sherman, married James F. Williams, October 8, 1851. Children
— Frances Otey (died young), and Wilmer Edward Hopkins.
Home, Lynchburg, Virginia.

10. WILMER E. H., son of James F. and America S.
Williams, married Margaret S. Humphrey, March 31, 1880.
Children — Cornelia H. (died young), John Leland and Otey
Susan.

9. VIRGINIA ADAMS, daughter of William M. and Har¬
riet O. Sherman, married John Reynal. Son — William A.

10. WILLIAM A., son of John and Virginia W. Reynal,
married Cora M. Sosear. Children — Walter and May.

8. NELSON HORATIO, born in 1800, son of John H. and
Elizabeth B. Otey, married, February 18, 1822, to Sarah Good-
gray, born February 2, 1804. Children — Elizabeth Rebecca,
Mary Hopkins (died unmarried), John Marquis, James Walter,
Callohill Mennis, William Doddridge (died in Confederate States
Army), Daniel Price and Thomas Benton (twins), Alexander
Whitfield and Sarah Nelson.

Nelson Horatio Otey died December 26, 1838. Sarah G.
Otey died July 24, 1871.

9. ELIZABETH REBECCA, daughter of Nelson H. and
Sarah G. Otey, married William W. Ray, July 2, 1855. Children
— James H., Susan G., Longworth G., John N. (died), William A.
and Edwin W.

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10. JAMES H., son of William W. and Elizabeth R. Ray,
married Rachel. E. Hinton, December 24, 1890. Children — Wil¬
bur, Samuel and Hazel Elizabeth. Home, Pueblo, Colorado.

10. SUSAN G., daughter of William H. and Elizabeth R.
Ray, married William M. Watson. Children — John and Sarah
Elizabeth.

9. JOHN MARQUIS, son of Nelson Horatio and Sarah G.
Otey, married Mrs. Emily Hall, July 26, 1855. Children —
Thomas Benton, Daniel Price and Sarah Angelina.

9. JAMES W., son of Nelson H. and Sarah G. Otey, mar¬
ried Catherine M. Worley, March 29, 1859. Son — James Calvin,
James Walter Otey was killed on Weldon Railroad, August 24,
1864, in the Confederate States Army.

10. JAMES CALVIN, son of James W. and Catherine W.
Otey, married Annie M. Peterson in 1886. Children — Richard
Cleveland and Walter Winfield.

9. CALLOHILL MENNIS, son of Nelson H. and Sarah G.
Otey, married Harriet E. R. Merrill. Children — Mary Virginia,
Rosa Lee, Lucy Kent, John Nelson (died infant), and Charles
Mennis.

10. MARY VIRGINIA, daughter of Callohill M. and Har*
riet M. Otey, married Walter C. Almond. Children — John Otey,
Robert, Roscoe Conkling, Eugene Houston, Charles Rawlings,
Jane May, Rubie, Lewis and others.

10. ROSA LEE, daughter of Callohill M. and Harriet M.
Otey, married Marcellus N. Liggan. Child — Charlotte.

10. CHARLES MENNIS, son of Callohill M. and Harriet
M. Otey, married Elizabeth B. Farrill. Children — Silas, Lewis,
Elsie and others.

9. THOMAS BENTON, son of Nelson Horatio and Sarah
G. Otey, married, June 19, 1861, Susan J. Roder. Children —
James (died), Robert Chesterfield, William Alexander, Ger¬
trude, Mary Thomas, Nathaniel and James Monroe (twins),
Theresa and Martha.

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9. ALEXANDER WHITFIELD, son of Nelson Horatio
and Sarah G. Otey, married, January 15, 1873, Sarah C. Moore.
Children — Walter Goodwich, Sarah C., Susan Cornelia (died),
and Alex Bane.

9. SARAH NELSON, daughter of Nelson Horatio and
Sarah G. Otey, married John Fulks. Child — William Alexander.

8. ELIZA J., daughter of John H. and Elizabeth B. Otey,
married, March 18, 1828, Thomas M. Jones. Children — Sarah
E., William, John (died), Henry (died), Daniel Price, Thomas
M., and Elizabeth (died).

9. SARAH ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas M. and Eliza
J. 0. Jones, married, February, 1852, Richard Halley. Children
— Willie, Lucy Hopkins, John Henrietta, Elizabeth Annie, Ada
Price, and Ella (dead).

10. WILLIE, daughter of Richard and Sarah J. Halley,
married, October 5, 1871, Preston C. Burton.

10. LUCY HOPKINS, daughter of Richard and Sarah J.
Halley, married, January 25, 1888, William B. McMillan.

10. JOHN, son of Richard and Sarah J. Halley, married
Alice Wilson.

10. ELIZABETH ANNIE, daughter of Richard and Sarah
J. Halley, married, December 22, 1880, Fletcher Buford Harvey.
Children — Sarah Price, Lucy Spriggs, Celeste Cleveland.

10. ADA PRICE, daughter of Richard and Sarah J. Halley,
married Samuel Agee. Children — Cyril C. and Elizabeth H.

8. JULIA ANN, daughter of John H. and Elizabeth B.
Otey, married, January 21, 1835, James L. Pegram. Children —
William D., born August 18, 1837 ; Ella Hopkins, February 2,
1839; Mary Prudence, January 17, 1841; Laura Jane, January
22, 1843 ; Thomas Leslie, November 29, 1844 ; Edward Augustus,
April 6, 1847; Margaret and Eugene Beauharnais.

9. WILLIAM D., married, 1864, Virginia Curd.

9. ELLA HOPKINS, married in 1865, B. S. Barnes.

9. MARGARET VIRGINIA, married in 1873, J. W. Miller.

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9. LAURA JANE, married in 1863, J. D. Macfarland.

9. EUGENE BEAUHARNAIS, married Mary Leary.

8. EDWIN W., son of John H. and Elizabeth B. Otey, mar¬
ried, July 4, 1846, Martha Jane Bunton. Children — Elizabeth
Virginia, James Barnette, Edwin Morris, Elijah Hopkins, Julia
Angeline Brown, William Walter, Lillie Ellen, Robert Monroe,
Lucy Mildred, George Watson and Nancy Delinda (died in in¬
fancy). Edwin W. Otey died October 7, 1887, Yamhill County,
Oregon.

9. ELIZA V., daughter of Edwin W. and Martha J. Otey,
married, September 26, 1865, Charles W. Haight. Children —
Jacob Walter, Ellen (died), George (died), Elijah, John, Laura,
Celand and Edna. They live in Douglas County, Oregon.

10. JACOB WALTER, son of Charles W. and Eliza V. 0.
Haight, married, December 15, 1888, Jennie Nunn. Daughter —
Virginia, Wasco County, Oregon.

9. JAMES BARNETTE, son of Edwin W. and Martha J.
B. Otey, married, August 4, 1872, Sarah J. Woodruff. Children
— Mary Myrtle and Maud (dead), Douglas County, Oregon.

9. ELIJAH HOPKINS, son of Edwin W., and Martha J. B.
Otey, married, December 18, 1881, Minnie Grey Reed. Children
— Francis Raymond, Garnett and Virginia, Douglas County, Ore¬
gon.

9. JULIA ANGELINE BROWN, daughter of Edwin W. and
Martha J. B. Otey, married, October 28, 1874, William H. Leath-
erman. Children — Charles Edwin, James Frederick, Watson
Joseph (dead), Douglas County, Oregon.

9. WILLIAM WALTER, son of Edwin W. and Martha J.
Otey, married, June 4, 1879, Annie Bell Post. Children — Siddie
Bell, Lavinia Myrtle (dead), Edwin Elijah and Julia Grey, Doug¬
las County, Oregon.

9. LILLIE ELLEN, daughter of Edwin W. and Martha
J. Otey, married, June 29, 1879, Lane M. Smith. Children —

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Robeit Lee, John Edwin, Elmer E., Lillie Virginia and Julia
Maud, Douglas County, Oregon.

9. ROBERT M., son of Edwin W. and Martha B. Otey,
married, first, Elmatta M. Thralkill ; second, Malinda J. Short.
Children — Ethel May, Elizabeth Grey, John Monroe, who mar¬
ried A. May Gardner, Douglas County, Oregon.

9. LUCY MILDRED, daughter of Edwin W. and Martha
J. Otey, married Joseph Copeland.

9. GEORGE WATSON, son of Edwin W. and Martha J.
Otey, married, July 9, 1887, Matilda J. McConnel. Children —
Albert Monroe (dead) and William Ray, Wasco County, Oregon.

P 7. THOMAS, son of Henry and Mildred Blackburn Buford,
and grandson of John and Judith Buford, of Culpeper County,
Virginia, was born in Bedford County, Virginia, March 11, 1776;
when a young man went to Lincoln County, Kentucky, where he
married Elizabeth Pierce, May, 1797. Children — Henry Pierce,
born June 2, 1798; Letitia S., January 6, 1800; Malinda, Novem¬
ber 22, 1801; John B., November 10, 1808; Jermiah, March 30,
1806; Thomas, Jr., January 10, 1809; Betsey, April 8, 1811;
Julia Ann, May 17, 1813, died young.

Thomas, Sr., sold out in Kentucky and moved to Overton
County, Tennessee. He was commssioned Lieutenant in the War
oi 1812. In November, 1814, he was called out with his com¬
pany to protect the station against the Indians. During the ex¬
pedition he was taken ill, and died on his way home, December
31, 1814, his son, Henry P., being with him.

His wife died in 1827, in Overton County, Tennessee.

8. HENRY P., son of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth P. Buford,
married Emily Murley, in Overton County, Tennessee, March 29,
1823. Children — Helen M., born in Overton County, Tennessee,
March 5, 1825; Mary Jane, January 14, 1831, in Morgan County,
Illinois; Lettuice, February 24, 1833, in Macoupin County, Illi-
* nois; William W. and Thomas J. (twins), March 10, 1837, in
Macoupin County, Illinois; Elijah R., April 8, 1839, in Macoupin

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County, Illinois; Julia A., April 10, 1843, in Schuyler County,
Missouri, and four other children dying in infancy.

Henry P. Buford and family left Tennessee and were among
the first settlers of Schuyler County, Missouri, locating near
the Iowa line six miles north of Downing, March, 1842, where
he built one of the first double log houses in that part of the
country. It was there his family grew to manhood and woman¬
hood and he improved a 250-acre farm and spent the greater por¬
tion of his life.

He was one of the first justices of the peace of that county
and served in that capacity a number of years. Before the
day of schoolhouses and churches his home became quite a central
place for social and religious meetings for the early day settlers
and their families. In the year 1873, after seeing the children
were provided with suitable homes, he and his wife, Emily, left
the old homestead and spent the remaining days of their life
mostly with their daughter at her home, Julia A. Bourn, a few
miles distant, near Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri, where they
had every attention necessary for comfort and happiness in their
declining years, and where they both died, Emily, in 1880, at
the age of eighty years, and Henry P., December 9, 1890, at the
ripe age of ninety-three years.

9. HELEN M., daughter of Henry P. and Emily M. Buford,
was married to Benedict McAtee, October 8, 1844, in Schuyler
County, Missouri. Children — Irenie Letitia, born October 15,
1845; Emma Catherine, July 4, 1847; George Henry, August,
1849; Julia, July 10, 1853; Marietta, March 10, 1855; Isabella,
November 6, 1859, and Lucy, May 18, 1863.

Helen M. and her husband moved to Washington County,
Kansas, about 1849, where they secured and improved a home¬
stead, reared their children and spent the greater portion of their
lives.

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The husband, Benedict McAtee, died about 1880; their child¬
ren all married and have families; some are located in Kansas,
others in Washington and other parts of the West.

Helen M. Buford McAtee is still living near the old home¬
stead in Kansas and is a remarkable woman in many ways. She
has now reached the ripe old age of 99 years. She has 17 grand¬
children, 28 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchil¬
dren. She has always been a great student of the Bible and news¬
paper reader, taking quite an interest in current events, particu¬
larly in the World War, and notwithstanding her advanced age
she has been able to interest herself by reading, piecing quilts and
doing fancy work, even up to the present time, 1924.

9. MARY JANE, daughter of Henry P. and Emily Buford,
married Stephen Gnash, September 7, 1872. They lived for a
time at Milton, Iowa, and later near Hitt, Missouri, where he
died. Since the death of her husband she has made her home
with her sister, Julia A. Bourn, of late years an invalid, the ef¬
fects of a broken hip. She reached the age of 92 years and died
August 17, 1923.

9. LETTUICE S., daughter of Henry P. and Emily Buford,
married John E. Israel, 1856, in Schuyler County, Missouri.
Children — Henry P., born August 17, 1857, and Robert E.,
August 10, 1859.

10. HENRY P., son of Lettuice S. and John E. Israel, born
in Schuylar County, Missouri, married Lottie A. Burns, Griswold,
Iowa, in 1880. Children — Eva, Harvey, Irvin, Emma, Walter,
Earl and Royal. In 1886 he went with his family to Colorado,
and in 1904 purchased a ranch in Dallas Valley, Owray County,
finally locating at Ridgway, where he died.

10. ROBERT E., son of Lettuice S. and John E. Israel,
born August 10, 1859, married Mahala Glasgow in 1879, in Davis
County, Iowa. Children — Elmer, Maude, Mattie, Joseph, Allie
and Cora. About the year 1889 he went with his family to Owray

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County, Colorado, buying a ranch near Ridgway, where he
and his family reside.

John E. Israel was killed during the Civil War, September
24, 1862, and his wife, Lettuice S., married, as second husband,
Franklin R. French, of Davis County, Iowa, March 24, 1872.
They had one daughter, Cora B., born June 1, 1873. She married
Frank Sullivan, December 31, 1891. They had five children —
James F., born December 6, 1892, married Esther Grace Willows,
of Kirksville, Missouri, April 18, 1918. They have one son,
“Billie” Willows, born June 16, 1919, at Des Moines, Iowa. James
F. Sullivan enlisted in the World War, U. S. Army, August 27,
1917, discharged October 27, 1919, and now lives at Des Moines,
Iowa. J. Orval, second son of Cora B. and Frank Sullivan, born
February 9, 1896, married Metta G. McEldowney, of Granger,
Missouri, April 1, 1918. They have two children, Cora Katheryn
and Dorris Lee. Their home is in Davis County, Iowa. J. Orval
Sullivan served his country in the World War; enlisted in the
United States Army February 23, 1918; sailed for France,
August, 1918, and was discharged February 7, 1919. Emma
Blanche, daughter of Cora B. and Frank Sullivan, born Septem¬
ber 19, 1898, married Prof. Harry W. Christy, March 17, 1917.
They have two children, Roger Sullivan and Harriet Ruth. Home,
Stanwood, Cedar County, Iowa. Lettie Ellen, daughter of Cora

B. and Frank Sullivan, born July 17, 1905, and Robert L., born
November 18, 1919, are at home with their parents, near Bloom¬
field, Iowa.

Lettuice S. Buford died January 25, 1892, in Davis County,
Iowa.

9. WILLIAM W., son of Henry P. and Emily Buford, mar¬
ried Margaret E. Hays, December 5, 1861, in Schuyler County,
Missouri. Children — Thomas Lee, born April 12, 1863; Mary

C. , November 13, 1866; Elma C., January 25, 1869, died August,
1890.

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William W. was an industrious and enterprising farmer
and stock raiser. He located shortly after marriage five miles
north of Downing, Missouri, where his children were born and
he lived until his wife’s death, January 12, 1881. In April, 1881,
he sold the home farm in Schuyler County and bought a splendid
farm of 280 acres near Kilwinning, in Scotland County, Missouri,
where he lived until his death, February 10, 1890. He was an
energetic man of generous public spirit, and was elected to two
terms of office as Judge of the County Court of Scotland County,
dying while in office.

10. THOMAS LEE, son of William W. and Margaret Hays
Buford, married Ellen E. McNary, October 22, 1882, in Schuyler
County, Missouri. No children. In early life he was engaged
in farming and stock raising, about five miles north of Downing,
Missouri, until April 1, 1893, he moved to Lancaster, Missouri,
where he continued in the live stock business, mostly cattle, in
fact, exclusively, for a number of years. He was elected to the
office of Judge of the County Court of Schuyler County in 1890,
being 27 years old, and was again elected for a second term in
1892. In 1898 he was elected to a four-year term as Circuit Clerk
and ex-officio Recorder of Deeds, and again in 1902 he was re¬
elected for a second term. At the expiration of this second term
he was admitted to the bar, but he never actively engaged in the
practice of law. In 1912 he was elected to the City Council, in
which capacity he served two terms. In 1916 he was elected Mayor
of Lancaster. In 1918 he was re-elected and 1920 was elected
again to serve a third term, but at the end of the first year re¬
signed the office. In 1923 he and his wife moved to Kansas
City, Missouri, where they now expect to make their home.

10. MARY C., daughter of William W. and Margaret E.
Buford, was married to N. E. Calhoun, of Kilwinning, Scotland
County, Missouri, January 31, 1891. Children — Lee B., born
April 30, 1892; Clifford N., March 13, 1894; Hazel F., March
8, 1900. Lee B. Calhoun married Myrtle Knupp, Scotland

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County, February 14, 1912. Children — Inez H., born May 30,
1913; Irene Lee, June 28, 1919; Newton E., September 3, 1921.
Clifford N. Calhoun married Maude H. Richard, April 12, 1919.
No children. Hazel F. Calhoun married Grover C. Crook, Octo¬
ber 17, 1918. Children — Robert E., born July 25, 1919; Claude
E., December 28, 1920; Harry C., August 12, 1922. All reside
in Scotland County.

Mary C., wife of N. E. Calhoun, died April, 1916.

9. THOMAS J., son of Henry P. and Emily Buford, never
married. He went to Colorado about the year 1861 and became
interested in gold mining; he returned to the old home in Mis¬
souri for a visit about 1868, remaining only a short time, and
then returned to Colorado. In later years he went to Butte City,
Montana, where he spent a number of years, and died in August,
1915.

9. ELIJAH R., youngest son of Henry P. and Emily Bu¬
ford, was never married, to the knowledge of his immediate
family. He went to Colorado in the early sixties, where he be¬
came engaged in mining, and from there went to Montana and
other parts of the West, and finally his home relatives failed to
hear from him as to his whereabouts, and at this time (1924)
do not know whether he is living or dead.

9. JULIA A., daughter of Henry P. and Emily Buford,
married John J. Bourn, of Hitt, Scotland County, Missouri,
January 24, 1864. Children — Robert H., born February 1, 1865,
died August 19, 1884; John D., August 3, 1869.

John J. Bourn was a prosperous farmer and stock raiser.
He died January 29, 1917. Julia A. continued to live on the old
home farm of 160 acres until her death, March 6, 1923, at the
age of 80 years.

9. JOHN D., son of John J. and Julia A. Bourn, married Ida
C. Leeper, near Memphis, Missouri, October 20, 1892. Children
— Helen M., born December 12, 1894; Eunice M., February 26,
1899; Buford L., May 21, 1901. Helen M. graduated from La-

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Grange College and taught in the public schools of Scotland
County and married Marion F. Billups, of near Memphis, Mis¬
souri, March 13, 1914. Children — Ray Buford, born February
5, 1917 ; Marion Lee, June 14, 1920. They live on their splendid
farm near Memphis, where they are engaged in farming and
stock raising, making a speciality of fine hogs.

10. EUNICE M., daughter of John D. and Ida C. Bourn,
graduated from LaGrange College, taught in the public schools of
her native county and became a member of the order of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. She was married to Ross
Tucker, son of H. H. Tucker, of near Hitt, October 30, 1921. They
have one child, Eunice Jean, born November 20, 1922. They live
on their large farm on the Iowa state line, five miles south of
Pulaski, Iowa, where they are engaged in stock raising, and
handle a large number of the finest feeding cattle the county
affords.

10. BUFORD L., son of John D. and Ida C. Bourn, after at¬
tending the public schools, took a college course, both at LaGrange
College and Kansas City. He is now at home with his parents on
their large farm near Hitt, where he has taken a partnership
with his father in farming and stock raising.

8. JOHN B., son of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth P. Buford,
married in 1824, Polly Edwards. They had one son, Edwin R.,
born February 28, 1825. Polly E. Buford died, and John B. mar¬
ried, for second wife, July 20, 1826, Nancy Scott. Children —
Mary Ann, born September 16, 1827; Thomas P., December 21,
1833 ; Sarah C., December 20, 1835 ; Nancy S. and Polly E.
(twins), September 15, 1837; Reuben S., February 17, 1840;
Eliza G., July 24, 1842 ; John, Jr., August 1, 1845.

John B. Buford died March 3, 1845. Polly Edwards Buford
died in 1826. Nancy Scott Buford died July 23, 1886.

9. EDWIN R., son of John B. and Polly Edwards, married,
September 19, 1844, Isabella Taylor, born October 28, 1827.
Children — John T., born February 3, 1847 ; Polly E., December

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22, 1848; Martha A., December 10, 1850; Robert A., December
12, 1853, died unmarried March 14, 1895; William T., January,
1855; Talton P., November 26, 1860; James H., August 14,
1867 ; Mary E., September 1, 1870.

10. JOHN T., son of Edwin R. and Isabelle Taylor Buford,
married Frances Elizabeth Kuykendall, July 21, 1868. Children
— Edwin Kuykendall, born October 1, 1869; William J., February
22, 1873; Sarah O., December 30, 1874; Martha M., April 20,
1877; Kate B., February 22, 1879; Talton Joseph, October 27,
1880; Dora Ann, June 25, 1883; Mary Alice, November 17, 1886.
John T. Buford lived near Cookville, Tennessee, until about 1882,
when he moved to Texas, near Dallas, and then about 1890 moved
to Greenville, Texas, where he lived the rest of his life. He was
killed in a runaway November 28, 1905.

Frances Buford, his wife, died in 1904. Both were buried
in a family lot in the Greenville Cemetery, Texas.

11. EDWIN K., son of John and Frances Buford, married
September 19, 1891, Sarah E. Savage, born March, 1874. Chil¬
dren — Frances Elizabeth, born July 2, 1894, (Bettie) married
Lewis T. Dents, of Houston, Texas; Ida May, is teaching; Ruby
C., stenographer; Floy, is in High School; William Emmett, is in
California studying medicine.

11. WILLIAM J., son of John T. and Frances Buford,
married, February 4, 1894, Clementine Good, born December,
1874. One child — James Edwin, in United States Army, sta¬
tioned at Honolulu. He was born December 11, 1894, Green¬
ville, Texas. William J. Buford died December 27, 1895. She
married again, John Moon.

11. SARAH O., daughter of John T. and Frances Buford,
married Arthur C. Gouch, October 25, 1893. She died September
28, 1894. Home, Greenville, Texas.

11. MARTHA MAY, daughter of John T. and Frances
Buford, married Emmett L. Butler, November, 1892. Children
— Noma, married Ola McNatt. They have four children — Wain,

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Ola, Jr., Lorain and Irma Jean. William Ernest married Ina
Busby and has one child, Margaret May. Ruth married Ed
Reynolds, has one girl, Martha Louis; Irene Ruttler died when
a few months old; Paul Buttler, the youngest son, is at home.
They live at Peniel, Texas. Mr. Butler is a mechanic.

11. TALTON JOSEPH, son of John T. and Frances Bu¬
ford, was born near Cookville, Tennessee, and went with his
parents to Texas when only two years old. When only a lad he
went to the Western Coast. He married in 1903 in Visalia, Cali¬
fornia, to Mary Larita Morrida. They have no children. They
have lived in Fresno, California, for the last seven years. He
owns the Buford Washing Machine Company, wholesale and re¬
tail, located at 932 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California.

11. ANNIE, daughter of John T. and Frances Buford, mar¬
ried Newton Jackson. Children — Ruby May, Catherine and
Glenna. After her husband’s death she married James Lovelady.

11. MARY ALICE, youngest daughter of John T. and
Frances Buford, married 0. Wilburn Montgomery in Greenville,
Texas, and lived there until about 1917, when he moved to Sul¬
phur, Oklahoma. Children — Blanche, died about one year old ;
Lois, Ellen, Ollis Verbe and Waldo, all in school, and Little Tal-
ton, three years old, born about 1920. His mother died in 1921,
when he was a month old. Home, Sulphur, Oklahoma. She
was taken to Greenville, Texas, for burial.

10. POLLY E., daughter of Edwin R. and Isabelle Buford,
married, October 10, 1871, C. H. Dowell. Children — Jesse S.,
born September 7, 1872; Chester B., October 14, 1874; Sarah O.,
September 9, 1877; Mary A., October 1, 1879; William M., July
20, 1882; Mirtie B., August 14, 1888; Cecil H., March 31, 1895.

10. MARTHA A., daughter of Edwin R. and Isabelle Bu¬
ford, married, March 25, 1869, J. B. Terry. Children — John T.,
born June 16, 1870; Erward V., June 20, 1873; William C., July
7, 1875 ; Robert R., January 14, 1878 ; Louis E., October 20, 1883 ;
Alonzo B., September 15, 1885.

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10. WILLIAM T., son of Edwin R. and Isabella Buford,
married, January 9, 1887, Alice Davis. Children — Charles T.,
born February 10, 1888; Clarence R., January 31, 1890; Mary

A. , September 3, 1892; Cecil H., December 28, 1894.

10. TALTON P., son of Edwin R. and Isabella Buford,
married, April 5, 1885, Darthuly Terry. Children — Martha F.,
boin August 20, 1886, died April 29, 1887; Benjamin A., Jan¬
uary 8, 1888; Sarah A., August 25, 1889; Mary B., July 22, 1891,
died December 12, 1892; Alma B., February 5, 1894; Arthur B.,
June 11, 1896.

9. MARY ANN, daughter of John B. and Nancy S. Bu¬
ford, married, April 4, 1844, William C. Smith. Children — John

B. , born June 18, 1845; Elizabeth J., September 14, 1846; George
M., October 29, 1848; Nancy A., March 20, 1850; Benjamin E.,
June 25, 1854; Charles T., May 8, 1857; Sarah M., January 27,
1860; Mary E., April 5, 1864; Lettia F., March 16, 1867. Resi¬
dence, Van Alstyne, Texas.

10. JOHN B., son of William C. and Mary Ann Smith, mar¬
ried, January 15, 1873, Elizabeth M. Watson, born May 25, 1849.
Children — Sarah E., born October 11, 1873; Joel E., August 11,
1875; Susan L., February 11, 1877; William S., May 15, 1878.
Elizabeth M. Smith died November 31, 1880.

11. SARAH E., daughter of John B. and Elizabeth M.
Smith, married, December 1, 1896, Thomas Brown.

10. ELIZABETH J., daughter of William C. and Mary
Ann Smith, married, March 12, 1868, J. B. Watson. Children —
Laura A., born March 20, 1869; John T., June 18, 1871; William
J., November 24, 1872; Nancy E., December 24, 1874; George
M., October 8, 1876; Mary L., November 21, 1878; Asa D., No¬
vember 29, 1880; Edward T., October 13, 1882, died August 15,
1894; Cora B., June 6, 1885; Frank G., September 22, 1886;
Morris T., April 10, 1889; Clarence A., June 19, 1891.

10. GEORGE M., son of William C. and Mary Ann Smith,
married, December 15, 1869, Barbara A. Watson, born April 3,

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1847. Children — William J., born October 3, 1870, died January

I, 1876; Mary E., November 12, 1872; John R., April 19, 1875;
Edwin T., May 1, 1877; Joseph H., August 18, 1880; Nathaniel
F., July 31, 1882; Angie, June 27, 1884.

Barbara A. Smith died July 17, 1884. George M. married,
for second wife, December 19, 1887, Polly A. McGraw. Child — -
Marion D., born July 5, 1890.

10. NANCY A., daughter of William C. and Mary Ann
Smith, married John Batterton.

10. BENJAMIN E., son of William C. and Mary Ann
Smith, married, January 3, 1883, Susan S. Watson, born Febru¬
ary 9, 1859. Children— Esther B., born July 23, 1885 ; William C.,
December 21, 1886; Minnie D., September 12, 1888; Susan A.,
July 4, 1890; Forrest E., September 10, 1892.

10. CHARLES T., son of William C. and Mary Ann B.
Smith, married, August 19, 1886, Sarah E. Housman, born
November 19, 1871. Children — Ettie S., born June 16, 1894;
Homer P., November 14, 1896.

10. SARAH M., daughter of William C. and Mary Ann B.
Smith, married, August 29, 1886, George T. Trel. Children —
Willard, born June 9, 1887; Minnie Ray, September 18, 1888;
Willis H., December 6, 1890; Charles C., May 18, 1892; Orvil,
September 3, 1893; Harriet M., March 27, 1895; Walter G., July
29, 1896.

10. MARY E., daughter of William C. and Mary Ann B.
Smith, married, May 24, 1896, A. C. Richmond, Aubrey, Texas.

10. LETITIA F., daughter of William C. and Mary Ann B.
Smith, married January 28, 1894, R. N. Watson. Children —
Zoe, born October 7, 1894; Charles V., February 25, 1896.

9. THOMAS P., son of John B. and Nancy Scott Buford,
married, first, January 12, 1851, Sarah Poindexter, born No¬
vember 13, 1834. Children — John R., born August 11, 1853;
Mary A., November 14, 1855 ; Virginia H., April 8, 1857 ; Rebecca

J. , May 2, 1859 ; Edwin N., February 25, 1861 ; George T., Sep-

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tember 20, 1863; Channing R., October 29, 1866; Sarah R., Sep¬
tember 14, 1870. Sarah P. Buford died September 14, 1870.
Thomas P. married, second, January 24, 1874, Frances Stephens,
born October 17, 1844. Children — Martha K., born May 4, 1878;
Julia M., July 14, 1880; Douglas B., January 30, 1882; Cora F.,
May 17, 1884, Savoy, Texas. Thomas P. Buford died in 1918.

10. JOHN R., son of Thomas P. and Sarah P. Buford, mar¬
ried, August 31, 1873, Nancy J. Armstrong. Children — London
B., born July 27, 1874, died November 5, 1890; Edwin T., Janu¬
ary 13, 1877 ; Mary B., April 25, 1879 ; Samuel T., September 4,
1881; Joseph L., May 5, 1884; Bertha, April 19, 1886, died July
17, 1890. Nancy A. Buford died July 12, 1886. John R. married,
for second wife, Josephine B. Britton, January 28, 1888. Chil¬
dren — Enid R., born April 16, 1890; John, October 7, 1892; Lena
May, August 13, 1895, and a son, February 19, 1897, Savoy,
Texas.

10. EDWIN N., son of Thomas P. and Sarah P. Buford,
married, July 25, 1881, Martha Nickols. Children — Elmer J.,
born April 30, 1882; Alow S., February 13, 1886. Edwin N. Bu¬
ford died October 24, 1887, Watson, Texas.

10. GEORGE T., son of Thomas P. and Sarah P. Buford,
married, September 13, 1885, Margaret Garrett. Children —
Sarah Oliver, born January 8, 1886; Arthur Duglass, January
6, 1888, died November 3, 1888; Beulah, February 24, 1889, died
November 12, 1889; Virginia Pearl, October 9, 1890. George T.,
married, second wife, October 13, 1895, Martha Ruse. Child
— George Lee, born September 17, 1896.

10. CHANNING R., son of Thomas P. and Sarah P. Bu¬
ford, married, January 17, 1895, Mary - . Son — Jesse T.,

born March 24, 1896, Savoy, Texas.

10. SARAH R., daughter of Thomas P. and Sarah P. Bu¬
ford, married, December 20, 1888, Thomas R. Watson. Child
— Frances B., born February 7, 1893. Thomas R. Watson died

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July 12, 1893. Sarah married, second time, July 8, 1896, James
C. Nelson, Savoy, Texas.

9. SARAH C., daughter of John B. and Nancy Scott Buford,
married, first, October 29, 1879, Curtis Terry; second, August
25, 1887, Phillip Dalton, Celina, Tennessee.

9. NANCY SCOTT, daughter of John B. and Nancy Scott
Buford, married, October 13, 1870, Jesse Martin, at Fox Springs,
Tennessee. Children — Ann, born November 21, 1871; Sarah,
July 14, 1873; Liza, November 17, 1875; Selina, April 6, 1879.

10. ANN, daughter of Jesse and Nancy B. Martin, mar¬
ried, December 20, 1891, Napoleon B. Sullivan, Fox Springs,
Tennessee.

10. — SARAH, daughter of Jesse and Nancy B. Martin, mar¬
ried, May 19, 1887, William Chilton. Children — Cora, born April
29, 1888; Mildred, March 7, 1890; Dillard, October 5, 1893; Dora,
November 8, 1896, Ward, Tennessee .

10. LIZA, daughter of Jesse and Nancy B. Martin, mar¬
ried, October 2, 1891, James Johnson, Ward, Tennessee.

10. SELINA, daughter of Jesse and Nancy S. Martin, mar¬
ried, March 1, 1896, Rufus Lankford, Fox Springs, Tennessee.

9. POLLY E., daughter of John B. and Nancy S. Buford,
married, December 15, 1857, John Scott. Children — Thomas,
born October 2, 1858; Stanton, June 20, 1861; Catherine, May
5, 1863. Polly E. Scott married, second, February 15, 1885, T.
M. Housman, Van Alstyne, Texas.

10. STANTON, son of John and Polly Buford Scott, mar¬
ried, October 9, 1881, Cynthia Burchem. Children — John C.,
born September 7, 1882; Norton C., August 23, 1884; Juna C.,
January 20, 1887 ; William F., February 21, 1889; Ruby T., Jan¬
uary 11, 1891. Stanton Scott died April 22, 1891.

10. CATHERINE, daughter of John and Polly B. Scott,
married, December 23, 1881, Milton F. Watson. Children — Wil¬
liam T., born March 17, 1883 ; Helen A., November 2, 1885 ; Mary

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E., August 11, 1888; Sarah M., January 20, 1890; Onslow S.,
April 24, 1892; Ora B., December 13, 1894.

9. REUBEN S., son of John B. and Nancy Buford, married
Nancy Hopper, and was killed in the Civil War, under General
Price.

9. ELIZA G., daughter of John B. and Nancy Buford, mar¬
ried, October 25, 1868, William B. Martin. Children — Nannie
C., born July 19, 1869; Mollie A., March 25, 1871; Robert B.,
March 29, 1877; Eunice C., July 22, 1879; Mary E., August 21,
1881 ; John T., January 30, 1884, Fox Springs, Tennessee.

10. NANNIE C., daughter of William B. and Eliza G. Mar¬
tin, married, August 9, 1892, Robert Goodpasture. Children —
Carly H., born February 12, 1894; Daffie M., August 26, 1896,
Fox Springs, Tennessee.

10. MOLLIE A., daughter of William B. and Eliza G. Mar¬
tin, married, April 9, 1896, Abraham Sailer, Moss, Tennessee.

9. JOHN B., Jr., son of John B. and Nancy S. Buford, mar¬
ried, January 8, 1867, Rebecca Williams. Children — Sylvesta C.,
born November 25, 1867; William J., July 31, 1871; Thomas M.,
February 19, 1874; Miles S., February 3, 1877; Albert S., July
21, 1881; Robert L., March 30, 1884; Ethel D., November 7,
1888, Blue Ridge, Texas.

10. SYLVESTA C., daughter of John B., Jr., and Rebecca
Buford, married, October 17, 1882, Brannan. Children — Mary
B., born September 11, 1884; Arthur L., April 5, 1887 ; Cora E.,
November 13, 1889.

8. JEREMIAH, son of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth P. Bu-
ford, married, about 1836, Mrs. Mary Edmonson, widow of
Thomas Edmonson, who was killed by a falling tree about a year
after their marriage. She was a daughter of Daniel Harty, of
Pilgrim stock, born in Pennsylvania, January 8, 1808, and
had one child by her first husband, called Nancy. Children —
Sarah Jane, born 1838; George Washington, 1840; James Mon-

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roe, 1843; Mary Ann, 1845; Thomas Jerry, April 2, 1847 ; Albert
Cass, 1849; Julia, 1851.

Jeremiah Buford was born on his father’s old plantation
near Covington, Tennessee ; moved to Kentucky while young, and
from there he went to Iowa, thence to Quincy, Illinois, where he
met and married his wife. Soon after marriage he returned to
Iowa, near the site of where Council Bluffs now stands. They
did not remain long there before they were run out by the In¬
dians. At that time, Jerry Buford and Henry Buford, his broth¬
er, went to Missouri, Henry settling permanently on the
Missouri side and Jerry on the Iowa side. However, Jerry did not
remain there long, moving further up into Iowa and settling on
Skunk River. He was always prosperous, and accumulated a
small fortune. In 1849 he started for the gold fields of Califor¬
nia and reached Des Moines, Iowa, where one of the wagons ran
over and killed his son, James Monroe. This so grieved him
that he bought the farm upon which the boy was buried and aban¬
doned the trip. In 1852 he sold the farm, and, with a plainsman’s
outfit and a herd of cattle, started with his family for Oregon.
He only reached as far as the base of the Black Hills, what was
known by the emigrants as the Upper Crossing of Platte River,
when he died of cholera, on the 19th of July, at the age of forty-
six years. Mary, his wife, continued on that long, lonesome,
and dangerous journey across the plains, and brought the family
of seven children to Portland, Oregon, assisted by her son-in-
law, John Briedwell, who previous to starting West, had married
Nancy Edmonson. Both Nancy and John are dead, as are all their
children, with the exception of George W. (retired merchant),
John, Jr., (Pres, of Amity Bank) both of Amity, Oregon, and
Edward, who is merchandising in McMinnville, Oregon.

9. SARAH JANE, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary H.
Buford, married, in 1859, Nathaniel Newell, of New York.
They lived at Amity. She died at McMinnville, Oregon, in 1861,
and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery at that place. She left

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one son, Walter. Mr. Newell married a second time, and was
afterwards accidentally killed in Portland, Oregon.

9. GEORGE W., son of Jeremiah and Mary H. Buford,
married, at Santa Ana, California, November 19, 1878, Annie
L. Cook Callaway. Children — Eva May, born in Tombstone,
Arizona, November 12, 1880, died December 21, 1886 (She was
the first white child born in Tombstone) ; Nellie Maud, August
25, 1882, died December 21, 1886, the same day as her sister, both
with diphtheria; George Albert, November 17, 1884, died May 21,
1886; Pearl B., September 12, 1886; Thomas J., July 3, 1888;
Mary Ethel, May 23, 1890, died February 9, 1905; Ray G., Jan¬
uary 4, 1893.

George W. Buford fought throughout the Indian Wars of
Oregon in 1855-56, came out a lieutenant and afterward, having
spent several years in the gold mines of Oregon, Idaho and Ari¬
zona, went to Southern California, where he married. He was
accidentally run over and killed by a train, December 13, 1900,
at Los Angeles. All of their children were born in Tombstone,
but the youngest son, Ray G.

10. PEARL B., daughter of George W. and Annie C. Bu¬
ford, married, first, Wesley T. Augustine, September 21, 1904,
at Los Angeles, California; was divorced July, 1910, and married,
second, Allen L. Lake, March 15, 1914. Children — Allen Leigh,
born June 7, 1915, and Ray T., May 2, 1917.

10. THOMAS J., son of George W. and Annie C. Buford,
married Florence Purdy October 2, 1916. One son — Howard,
born August 17, 1922, Whittier, California.

10. RAY G., son of George W. and Annie C. Buford, was
born at Yaquina, Oregon, married Cora L. Cook, January 18,
1914, at Oceanside, California. She died January 2, 1915. They
had no children.

Ray G. Buford served in the World War for eighteen months,
91st Division, 316 Engineers, Co. B. He was drafted October 4,
1917, and sent to Camp Lewis for training. His company left

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Camp Lewis June 22, 1918, embarking from New York City
July 6, 1918, on the Armah, an Australian meat boat, and land¬
ing in Liverpool July 6, 1918. From there, July 20, 1918, he left
for Southampton, whence, July 21, 1918, he went across to
Sherbourgh, France. He was in the battle of St. Mihiel from
September 10 to September 13, 1918; Meuse, Argonne, September
26 to October 12, 1918; Ypres Lys (Belgium), October 31 to
November 11, 1918; arrived in United States from France April
16, 1919. He was made a corporal August 9, 1918; received an
honorable discharge at Presidio, California, May 3, 1919. His
discharge showed his character was excellent, and that he was
very brave. He is now a railroad construction foreman for the
Pacific Electric.

9. MARY ANN, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary H. Bu¬
ford, married Archibald Saling at McMinnville, Oregon, in 1861,
and died the same year in Walla Walla, Washington. No child¬
ren.

9. THOMAS JERRY, son of Jeremiah and Mary H. Bu¬
ford, settled near Amity, Oregon, in Yamhill County; moved to
Salem in 1868 ; married Mary Livingston Howell in 1872. Child¬
ren — Jay Wane, born June 6, 1873; Bertha Maud, August, 1875;
Guy M., June 22, 1879; Marion L., July 7, 1881.

Thomas Jerry Buford, in 1874, moved from Salem, Oregon,
to Corvallis in same state, where he engaged in business. He
was elected county treasurer of Benton County in 1876; ap¬
pointed United States Indian Agent in 1889 ; served eight years
and received the title of Major therefor; served four years as
assistant superintendent of Oregon State Reform School for boys,
and traveled twelve years through Pacific Coast States in the
interest of Fraternal Brotherhood of Los Angeles, California,
four years of which was as state manager for Oregon. He
served in the volunteer fire department of Salem and as chief
engineer of Corvallis volunteer fire department. He was a Mason
in Pacific, No. 50, in 1871, later transferred to Corvallis, No. 14;

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is also a member of Furguson Chapter No. 4, and Oregon Coun-
cil No. 2. He is retired and lives in his mountain home in the
grandeur of the Coast Mountains in Lincoln County, Oregon,
where he says, “Man grows aged, but not old.” Residence, Philo¬
math, Harlan Route, Oregon. Mary L. H. Buford died in- 1882,
and was buried in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Oregon.

10. JAY WAYNE, son of Thomas Jerry and Mary Howell
Buford, was educated in Corvallis; worked for many years in
the Southern Pacific Company’s machine shops at Portland ; em¬
ployed in the shipyards during the World War, and is at present
in the oil fields of California. He married Mabel Wheeler in
1896.

10. BERTHA MAUD, daughter of Thomas Jerry and Mary
L. Howell Buford attended Willamette University at Salem,
Oregon, and University of Oregon, at Eugene ; died at New Port,
Oregon, December 20, 1897, and was buried by her mother’s side
in Crystal Lake Cemetery.

10. GUY M., son of Thomas Jerry and Mary L. Howell Bu¬
ford, was educated in the public schools of his native state; at¬
tended Oregon Agricultural College; member of A. F. & A. M.
and K. of P. orders; is following carpentry and building; mar¬
ried in 1905 to Theola Pauline Dove, of Salem, Oregon ; has a
daughter, Bertha Audra, born April 24, 1906, and a son, Ronald
Wayne, December 22, 1907, Portland, Oregon, No. 395 Mar-
gurette Ave., corner of E. Lincoln, Portland, Oregon.

10. MARIAN L., daughter of Thomas Jerry and Mary L.
Howell Buford, studied music at Willamette University, Salem,
Oregon ; married Dr. Albert G. Snow, son of Granville and Mary
Jane Snow, of Bangor, Maine. Dr. Snow served in the Medical
Corps during the World War, receiving the title of Major; has
two sons, Albert G. Snow, Jr., born January 13, 1907, and Stan¬
ley Buford Snow, December 24, 1911, died suddenly, December
28, 1923, of cerebral hemorrhage, Seattle, Washington.

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9. ALBERT CASS, youngest son of Jeremiah and Mary
Harty-Buford, died in Salem, Oregon, in 1870, and was buried in
I. 0. 0. F. Cemetery at that place.

9. JULIA, youngest daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Harty-
Buford, married Robert Wood in Salem, Oregon, in 1872, and
died in 1874 at Spring Valley, near Salem; buried by the side of
her mother at Amity.

8. LETITIA, daughter of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth
Pierce-Buford, married Joseph Edwards; went to Sangamon, Illi¬
nois, and, after Black Hawk War, to Des Moines County, Iowa,
where they remained until 1856, when they went to Kansas.
Children — Thomas, married Rebecca Basey; Rebecca, married
Mr. Drake; Margaret, married Albert Benedict; Nancy, married
James Benedict, and Katherine.

Letitia Edwards died in Nebraska.

8. MALINDA, daughter of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth
Pierce-Buford, married John Jones. Children — William and
Thomas. They went to the gold fields of California in 1849; re¬
turned, and Malinda Jones died in Morgan County, Illinois.

8. THOMAS, JR., son of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth Pierce-
Buford, married Virginia Frances (Jennie Frances) Edwards.
Children — William Stanton, born October 14, 1836; James, and
daughter, Elizabeth. We have no records of James and Eliza¬
beth.

Thomas Buford, Jr., died in Dade County, Missouri, about
1858; Jennie Frances, his wife, about 1894.

9. WILLIAM S., son of Thomas, Jr., and Jennie Frances
Edwards-Buford, married Johanna Morris in 1865, who was
born July 7, 1842. They had twelve children, nine dying in in¬
fancy. Those who survive are — Thomas Sanford, born Septem¬
ber 30, 1866; Elizabeth, February 10, 1870; Robert E., October
8, 1875, died in 1916. William S. Buford died in 1889; his wife
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10. THOMAS S., son of William S. and Johanna Morris
Buford, married Ollie Thomson, July 24, 1893. Children — Sylvia
Carroll, born April 26, 1894; Juliette Jewell, December 19, 1895;
Burrell Stanton, February 8, 1898; Olive Vetta, June 9, 1900;
Thomas Earl, October 31, 1903, Joplin, Missouri.

11. OLIVE VETTA, daughter of Thomas S. and Ollie
Thomas Buford, married, June 10, 1922, Chester Balay, jof
Wichita, Kansas. Son — Allen Balay.

10. ELIZABETH, daughter of William S. and Johanna
Morris Buford, married, first, Mr. Geer, and has two children,
Edgar and Alice. Elizabeth Geer, married, second, Henry Camp¬
bell, and lives at Brownwood, Texas. Children — Claude and
Hurley Campbell.

8. BETSEY, daughter of Thomas, Sr., and Elizabeth Pierce
Buford, married Mr. Garrison.

7. ABRAHAM, son of Henry and Mildred Blackburn Bu¬
ford, married Sophia Lumpkin, December 22, 1796. Children —
Henry, born May 1, 1798; Lucy, August 16, 1800; Elizabeth, De¬
cember 22, 1802; Thomas L., November 12, 1804; Mildred, July
27, 1808; Paschal, August 13, 1811; Julianna, 1814. Sophia
Lumpkin Buford was born July 20, 1781, died July 21, 1815, and
was buried in the family cemetery at “Locust Level. ” Abraham
married, for his second wife, Nancy Eidson, August 25, 1817.
Children — Wellington, born June 13, 1818; Frances, June 18,
1819 ; Mary M., June 18, 1821 ; William, August 13, 1822 ; Simeon,
March 14, 1824; Nancy A., July 18, 1825; James L., August 23,
1827.

Abraham Buford’s will was probated October 9, 1845.

8. HENRY, son of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin Buford,
born in Bedford County, Virginia, married Eleanor Hardy, De¬
cember 12, 1820, born January 15, 1800, died November 12, 1853.
Children — Algeline, born April 28, 1822, died July 21, 1825;
Abraham Lumpkin, July 14, 1823, died December 12, 1846, of
pneumonia, while a young man working in the mines at Galena,

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Illinois; Walter Otey, July 27, 1825, died November 29, 1826;
John Alexander, January 18, 1827 ; Callohill Mennis, April 27,
1829, died young; Lucy, died young; Paschal Goodwin, July 1,
1833; Massanello Marion, February 29, 1836; Mildred Black¬
burn, January 7, 1838; Julianna Elizabeth, November 1, 1841.

Henry Buford came to Missouri with his family from Bed¬
ford County, Virginia, in the summer of 1834, stopped for a
while near Monticello, Missouri, and afterward moved to Mc-
Reynolds neighborhood, near Colony, then Lewis County. Later
Lewis was divided and that part was called Knox County. Eleanor
Hardy Buford died November 12, 1853, and Henry Buford mar¬
ried, for his second wife, Mrs. Eliza Dodd Meriwether, in March
or April, 1855. She died, and he then made his home with his
children. He died at the home of his son, M. M. Buford, near
LaBelle, Mo., February 21, 1877.

9. JOHN ALEXANDER, son of Henry and Eleanor Hardy
Buford, married Mary J. McCurdy, March 24, 1876. He was
born in Bedford County, Virginia, and accompanied his parents
to Missouri in the summer of 1834, coming through in covered
wagons with a company of others. Later he lived in Illinois. He
served throughout the Mexican War. He caught the “gold fever”
in 1849 and went to California. He moved to Portland, Oregon,
in 1863, where he lived until his death, February 28, 1899.
Children — Luella, born August 30, 1868; Claribel, June 9, 1871.
Mary J. McCurdy Buford married her second husband, H. W.
Green, April 16, 1906, and now lives in Seattle, Washington.

10. LUELLA, daughter of John A. and Mary Buford, mar¬
ried Lee Thomas Beagle, February 28, 1886. He died in 1912.
They had one son, Harry Buford Beagle, born November 4, 1887,
who served in the World War, Company D., 30th Battalion, Fort
Gibbons, Alaska.

10. CLARIBEL, daughter of John A. and Mary Buford,
married Royal Fred Love, May 27, 1890. One daughter — Linnie

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L. Love, born February 26, 1891, died in Camp Lewis, November
12, 1918.

11. LINNIE LOVE was the only child of her parents and
her career was a most remarkable one. When a mere child her
eyesight failed and became so bad she could see only large objects.
Her love for music manifested itself early in life. She had a
sweet soprano voice. After being well advanced in her music
at her home in Seattle, she went to New York City and con¬
tinued her study of music, and also placed herself under the care
of a noted oculist, who gave her the best of attention, but to no
avail. She continued her music, and through friends and in¬
structors found a way to the best of music companies. By her
singing she won six scholarships from different conservatories
of music, graduating from one with highest honors. She sang
with the Metropolitan Opera Company, being one of the Metro¬
politan Opera quartet.

Her inseparable companion, Lorna Lea, sang contralto. Lin-
nie sang before many of the most noted singers, including the late
LILLIAN NORDICA, who offered to finance her studies.

Among a hundred applicants, she was chosen to create the
“singing voice” of the famous Italian singer in “ROMANCE,”
which she sang off stage for Doris Reave, who enacted the roll
of singer. She appeared for a time with Laurette Taylor, the
original character of “PEG O’ MY HEART.”

She lived a part of her stay in New York City at the “THREE
ART CLUB.” This institution was established and maintained
by a wealthy group of New York women as a home for talented
girls who are studying music, painting and sculpture. Only
students of marked talent are accepted, getting the benefit of
the home.

Linnie sang with Ellison White Chautauqua System, New
York.

During the World War she and her companion, Lorna Lea,
came to Seattle, Washington. They sang for Camp Lewis, Fort

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Lawton, Vancouver Barracks, Fort Steenens, Fort Worden and
Bremerton, where they endeared themselves to the men in camp
with their sweet voices and charming manners. The boys were
not satisfied with just one, two, or three songs. They sang at
the Y. M. C. A. huts, Base Hospitals and open air, and through
them many soldier boys gained fresh courage and new aspira¬
tions. When Camp Lewis went into quarantine on account of
influenza the girls both stayed in camp that they might make
the time a little brighter and life a little less irksome. Both
girls contracted “flu.” Miss Lea recovered, but the Spirit of Lin-
nie Love passed on to the Great Beyond. She died November
12, 1918, and was buried at Portland, Oregon.

9. PASCHAL GOODWIN, son of Henry and Eleanor Hardy
Buford, came with his parents from Bedford County, Virginia,
to Missouri, in the summer of 1834. He went West when a young
man and married Mrs. Adaline Noble-Wood in 1839. They lived
in Wallowa County, Oregon, where he died February 6, 1888.
His wife died January 6, 1901. They had no children. He was
State Senator of Oregon.

9. MASSANELLO MARION, son of Henry and Eleanor
Hardy Buford, was born in Lewis County, Missouri. (Lewis was
divided later, and this part is now Knox County). He married
Elizabeth Kate German, August 23, 1863, in Titus County, Texas.
She was born in Dayton, Ohio, October 11, 1836. She was the
only child of indulgent parents and was given the benefit of the
best opportunities the times then afforded and their ability would
permit. When they lived in Farmington, Iowa, she had the
privilege of attending a most excellent select school, taught by
Prof. Nathan Ruggles Smith and his accomplished daughter,
Miss Rebecca. She united with the South Fork Baptist Church
in 1856, located in Lewis County, Missouri, but changed her mem¬
bership to the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (now LaBelle
church) in 1872. She was a good worker in the church and
loved to teach her Sunday school class of girls. She taught both

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M.M. BUFORD AND FAMILY

Upper left. M. M. Buford; upper right. Elizabeth K. Buford: center Kate
E. Buford; lower left. Mildred Buford Minter; lower right, H. L. Buford.

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public and select school in Missouri and Texas. She was quite
a literary woman, writing both prose and poetry.

She died at her home in LaBelle, Missouri, January 16, 1901.
Children — Kate Eleanor, born January 26, 1866, in Titus County,
Texas; Mildred B., December 23, 1867, in Hancock County, Illi¬
nois; Henry Lee (called Harry), May 16, 1871, in Hancock
County, Illinois.

Massanello Marion Buford, with the meager education that
was afforded him in his day, made the very best of his oppor¬
tunities and was very accurate in his dealings. Before the Civil
War he was salesman employed in his Uncle William Buford’s
store at Lancaster, Missouri.

In July, 1861, under the call of Governor Clayborn Fox Jack-
son, he entered the Missouri State Guards under Capt. Joe Poter,
and was made sergeant. He participated in the fight at Athens,
skirmish at Shelbina and battle at Lexington, all in Missouri. He
was discharged at Springfield on expiration of service. He re¬
entered in Capt. William S. Richardson’s Company for another
term of six months. He was elected as lieutenant of the com¬
pany, and went with the command to Corinth, Mississippi, and
returned with the same, under Gen. M. M. Parsons, to Arkansas.
In the summer of 1862 he resigned his commission in Missouri
State Guards and enlisted in the Confederate States Army for
the period of the war. December 7, 1862, in the battle of Prairie
Grove, Arkansas, he received six wounds. He was in a miserable
hospital for six months; came up with his command July, 1863,
on White River, when he received a furlough. He went to Texas
and remained there for twelve months, and was honorably dis¬
charged as unfit for service on account of gun-shot wounds. He
re-entered the army in the fall of 1864 and was assigned to duty
as Clerk in Post Quartermaster’s Department, at Mount Pleas¬
ant, Texas, which position he filled until the close of the war.

He returned to Missouri in the summer of 1866, crossed over
the Mississippi River to Hancock, Illinois, where he farmed for

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six years, during which time he was elected township collector,
and though comparatively among strangers gave bond for seven¬
teen thousand dollars.

In 1868, he received the degree of E. A. F. C. and Master Ma¬
son in Denver, Illinois, Lodge No. 404, and was soon elected its
secretary and served in that capacity until he left the state. He
was sent to Chicago, State Grand Lodge, as a delegate.

In 1872 he returned to Lewis County, Missouri, and pur¬
chased a piece of land two miles west of LaBelle, Missouri, and
added to this until he had one-fourth section. In 1894 he sold
his farm, moved to LaBelle, where he lived until his death, Octo¬
ber 9, 1910.

Early in life he made a profession of religion, 1854, and
united with the South Fork Baptist Church. He was a deacon
and clerk of First Baptist Church in LaBelle, Missouri. In re¬
ligious work and temperance cause he was always found faith¬
ful and at his post of duty.

10. KATE ELEANOR BUFORD, when a baby six months
old, came with her parents overland in a covered wagon from
Titus County, Texas, to Missouri. They were with a company
of others, for it was not safe in those days for one wagon to
go alone. They were three months making the journey, as all
bridges had been destroyed during the Civil War. Much rain
caused swollen streams, and they had to head them, wait for them
to recede or take off their wagon beds for a canoe and ferry
over stream. They tried first one and then the other.

In the fall of 1866 her parents settled in Hancock County,
Illinois, remaining there six years and then moving to a farm
purchased two miles west of LaBelle, Missouri, later moving to
LaBelle. After the death of her mother, in 1901, she kept house
and made a home for her father.

10. MILDRED B. BUFORD, daughter of Massanello M.
Buford and Elizabeth K. Buford, was four years of age when she
came to Missouri from Illinois. October 8, 1893, she married

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Rev. John Abner Minter, D. D., of Canton, Missouri, who was a
prominent minister of the Baptist denomination, preaching to
churches of Northeast Missouri for forty years. Two churches,
Shiloh and New Prospect of Wyaconda Association, were organ¬
ized by him and he preached to Shiloh for more than a quarter
of a century. He was born in Henry County, Virginia, and dur¬
ing the Civil War was a colonel of the Confederate Army, com¬
mander of the 54th Alabama Regiment, under Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston, leading his regiment in all the hard fought battles of
the South.

Dr. Minter died April 16, 1909, and his wife returned to her
father’s home in LaBelle, Missouri.

Mildred B. Minter graduated with high class honors with
six other young ladies from LaBelle High School, March 14, 1887 ;
she won a gold medal in a declamatory contest given by this
school, February 28, 1885, when there were eighteen contestants
competing. May 16, 1889, she graduated from Western Academy,
LaBelle, Missouri, and later was a student of LaGrange Baptist
College, LaGrange, Missouri. She taught in the public schools
for seven years, in the intermediate department of LaBelle graded
school, in the primary department in Knox City school, and also
a number of country schools. She is a graduate in drafting and
dress making from the Weidel Ladies Tailoring College, St. Louis,
Missouri, having received her diploma from a branch house at
Kirksville, Missouri. She has done much fancy work, especially
in crocheting, having captured many ribbons at county and state
fairs in the textile departments.

She has been regular reporter to the Quincy Daily Herald,
as well as contributor to other newspapers, from which she has
won prizes for articles written by her pen.

Under the new law of 1922 she has her certificate license as
attendant nurse and assistant in hospital work and surgery, etc.

Four years she was secretary and treasurer of LaBelle Poul¬
try Association; she served as both secretary and treasurer in

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the order Eastern Star Chapter, LaBelle, Missouri, for a number
of years. She came from a true line of Democrats,, and when
woman suffrage became a national law, just before the general
election, November 2, 1920, when women of Missouri, for the
first time, were granted the right to vote, Mildred B. Minter was
appointed by Lewis County Central Committee as chairman of
LaBelle precinct, as organizer, and with an efficient company
of co-workers she appointed, she polled all the Democratic
women voters that day, with the exception of a very few. At the
next city election in April she was appointed Judge. Then at
the following election she served as clerk. She has always been
active in church work, teacher in the Sunday School, president of
missionary society, five years president of Woman’s Missionary
Union of Wyaconda Association, and seven years a member of the
Executive Board of same Baptist association, which position she
continues to hold, as well as clerk of the First Baptist Church of
LaBelle (1924).

When in 1919 the Seventy-five Million Campaign was
launched, she was a commissioned officer under the Southern
Baptist Convention as organizer of the woman’s work of Wya¬
conda Baptist Association.

10. HENRY LEE BUFORD came with his parents in the
fall of 1872 from Hancock County, Illinois, to Lewis County, Mis¬
souri, when one and a half years old. He grew to manhood on
the farm, received his education at the country school, LaBelle
High School, and Western College, LaBelle, Missouri. In the
summer of 1889 he was one of a company of LaBelle volunteers
in training, under DeWitt Edgar Jones, a West Point Cadet, for
the Spanish America War. However, the company was not called
to the front for service.

In 1900 he was United States census taker for the west half
of LaBelle township, LaBelle City included.

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In 1900-1901 he had a clerkship under Hon. George G. Risk,
representative from Lewis County to State Legislature, at Jef¬
ferson City, Missouri.

In the fall of 1901 he went to Hobart, Oklahoma, where he
spent the winter. He then led a nomadic life for eight years. He
went down into old Mexico, crossed the ardent plains, striking
the Pacific Coast at San Diego, and spending a portion of time
at most of the cities along the Western Coast, making Seattle
headquarters for about eight years. With others he made four
trips to Alaska, one trip going as far north as Nome City. He
spent about three years’ time in Alaska, working a part of the
time for a syndicate, at other times, with three others, prospect¬
ing for themselves. One camp was on the Porcupine River out
from Hanes Mission. This trip was made in their own sail boat.
During the panic of 1907 he was in Seattle.

When, in 1908, his father was in declining health, he re¬
turned to LaBelle. He has served LeBelle as night watchman for
eight years.

9. MILDRED BLACKBURN, daughter of Henry and
Eleanor Hardy Buford, was born near Colony, Missouri, January
7, 1838. She united with the South Fork Baptist Church in 1854,
under the preaching of Rev. John W. Rowe, and was baptized by
him. She was a noble woman and lived a true Christian life of
usefulness. She was married to John L. Triplett, April 3, 1858,
and lived in Hancock County, Illinois, on a farm near Denver.
Her husband died February 10, 1870. She then made her home
with her sister, Mrs. Julia E. Lewis, near LaBelle, Missouri, until
November 26, 1873, when she married, for second husband,
George A. Terrill, who owned a large farm near Philadelphia,
Missouri. Her husband died May 15, 1905, and she then made
her home with her eldest son, George Henry, until her death,
which occurred June 8, 1911. The funeral services were con¬
ducted by her pastor, Dr. A. S. Ingram, and Rev. T. S. Scott, at

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the Philadelphia Baptist Church. Interment was in the Terrill
Burying Ground, on the old farm.

10. GEORGE HENRY, son of Mildred B. Buford
and George A. Terrill, born October 3, 1874, in Marion
County, Missouri, married Miss Leeta Gibbons March 5, 1896.
They own and conduct a large general merchandise store in Phil¬
adelphia, Missouri.

10. CHARLES M., youngest son of Mildred B. Bu¬
ford and George A. Terrill, born in Marion County, Missouri,
on the old Terrill farm near Philadelphia, February 10, 1877,
went to Colusa, Colusa County, California, and married his
cousin, Miss Della Terrill. They own and run a large ranch;
have no children.

9. JULIANNA ELIZABETH, youngest child of Henry and
Eleanor Hardy Buford, born November 1, 1841, near Colony,
Missouri, married John Thompson Lewis, February 8, 1858, born
in Harrison County, Kentucky, a descendant of two well-known
families, the Lewises and the Jacksons. He owned a fine farm
of 240 acres in Knox County, Missouri, and was an excellent
farmer. He entered the Confederate service under Gen. Sterling
Price, Col. Martin E. Green and Capt. Richardson. He was cap¬
tured and served fifteen months in prison, at Alton, Palmyra, and
St. Louis. He was a charter member of LaBelle Baptist Church
when it was organized, September 6, 1856, and lived his entire
Christian life a member of this church. He was a deacon and
clerk for a number of years. He died at his home in LaBelle,
July 4, 1911. *

There was something a little remarkable about this family.
Julianna, the youngest child, married first, and the other children
continued to marry on up the line according to age. Another
thing that few now living (1924) can boast of is of having SPUN
by hand, CARDED AND WOVEN, all the material for home use,
such as blankets, carpets, linen, linsy and jeans. These were
truly pioneer days, and real life. Julianna Elizabeth is the only

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one of her father’s family now living. She had a severe stroke
of paralysis two years ago, but has recovered sufficiently to get
about in the house and knit, etc. She is very cheerful and of a hap¬
py disposition, a great reader, posted on all current events, and a
good Bible student. Children — Henry Buford, born October 28,
1858, died November 29, 1859 ; Massanello Marion, October 4,
1860; Harriet Eleanor, May 18, 1865; Sarah Mildred, September
27, 1867 ; Henrietta Elizabeth, January 3, 1871.

10. MASSANELLO MARION, son of Julianna Buford
and John T. Lewis, was reared on a farm, attended country
school, LaBelle High School and LaGrange Baptist College. He
united with the Baptist Church in 1878; has been Sunday School
superintendent, deacon and clerk of church and also trustee. He
has been stock buyer, and takes much interest in politics. He
now is a partner in Young Mercantile Company, LaBelle, Mis¬
souri. He married Linnie Ross, February 14, 1883. They lived
on a farm in Knox County, later moving to LaBelle. Children —
Flossie S. and Julia Kate. Linnie Lewis died March 31, 1916, and
M. M. Lewis married, for his second wife, Mrs. Sallie Briscoe
McCann, November 1, 1919.

11. FLOSSIE S., daughter of M. M. and Linnie Lewis,
born January 9, 1887, married Frank L. Young, of Wisconsin,
January 25, 1919. Young Mercantile Company is comprised
of Frank L. Young, buyer; M. M. Lewis, partner; Mrs.
Flossie Young, bookkeeper, and Miss Henrietta Lewis, one of the
clerks. They have a large grocery stock, besides general mer¬
chandise. Flossie is a graduate in music at Kirksville Normal
School and pianist of LaBelle Baptist Church.

11. JULIA KATE, youngest daughter of M. M. and
Linnie Lewis, born January 24, 1892, graduated from the
LaBelle High School. She is very proficient in painting. She
married William Edward Coffey, who was in the World War
service, September 30, 1915. They live in Queen City, Missouri.

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He is a traveling saleman. They have one son, William Lewis
Coffey, born December 27, 1920.

10. HARRIET ELEANOR, daughter of Julianna E.
and John T. Lewis, born May 16, 1865, attended country
schools and LaBelle High School, married Richard E. Gregory,
December 17, 1884, born May 19, 1858, and died January 29,
1895. They lived on a farm in the east part of Lewis County,
Missouri, which the family still own, but after the death of her
husband she moved with her children to Kirksville, Missouri,
where she could give them the benefit of a good education.

11. SHELTON EARNEST, son of Harriet L. and
Richard E. Gregory, born August 25, 1887, married Mabel
Malone, August 16, 1913, born February 7, 1887. They have one
child, Jeane Elizabeth, born June 8, 1918. Their home is in
Kirksville, Missouri, where he owns and conducts a large shoe
store.

11. JULIA MARTHA, daughter of Harriet L. and
Richard E. Gregory, born August 6, 1891, married Doran
Garnett Johnson, May 4, 1909, of Ardmore, Oklahoma. He grad¬
uated from the A. S. 0. School in Kirksville, Missouri, and also
is an M. D. and practicing physician. Children — Louise Helen,
born December 17, 1910; William Benjamin Johnson, September
15, 1915, Ardmore, Oklahoma.

11. LULA BLUETT, youngest daughter of Harriet
L. and Richard E. Gregory, born April 18, 1894, lives with
her mother in Kirksville, Missouri. She is good in music and
has a position as assistant clerk in Bank of Kirksville.

10. SARAH MILDRED, daughter of Julia Buford and
John T. Lewis, born September 27, 1867, lives at home
with her mother, as she has been an invalid for the last two
years. She was educated in the country schools, LaBelle High
School and Western College, LaBelle, Missouri. She is good in
all church work. She went into LaBelle Savings Bank as assist-

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ant in 1909, and was continuous in service until 1923, when it
was necessary for her to remain at home.

10. HENRIETTA ELIZABETH, youngest child of Julia
Buford and John T. Lewis, born January 3, 1871, lives at
home with her mother, was educated at country schools, LaBelle
High School and Western College, LaBelle, Missouri. She is
good in music, has been organist of the Baptist Church in La¬
Belle and was a clerk in Skirvins large apartment store from
1906 to 1910, when it was destroyed by fire. Now she is a clerk
for the Young Mercantile Company.

8. LUCY, daughter of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin Bu¬
ford, married Barney Eidson and lived and died in Bedford
County, Virginia. She had no children.

8. ELIZABETH, daughter of Abraham and Sophia Lump¬
kin Buford, married Shelton Eidson. Children — Newton, Clin¬
ton, James, Angeline, Mary, Nancy, Margarite and Julianna.
They lived in Bedford County, Virginia.

8. THOMAS L., son of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin Bu¬
ford, never married, lived and died in Bedford County, Virginia.

8. MILDRED, daughter of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin
Buford, married Hugh Crockett. They lived and died in Mont¬
gomery County, Virginia, leaving no children.

8. PASCHAL, son of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin Bu¬
ford, born in Bedford County, Virginia, came to Missouri when
a young man, married Mary (Polly) McVickers in Monticello,
Missouri, at the home of Massanello Plant, March 4, 1838.
Children — Mary Elizabeth, born May 2, 1842; James Henry,
July 21, 1844; Martha Ann, May 13, 1848; Diana, December 22,
1855, and George Washington, July 27, 1861.

Paschal Buford and Nelts Stuart had a brick yard in Monti¬
cello for several years. He was a good brick and stone-mason and
did much of the first work in Monticello and Canton, Missouri,
and the country around. He built the first brick flue in Canton,
Missouri, in a log house, for Billy Chriswell, and built the first

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brick house in the same town, for Henry Snyder. He assisted
in building the first row of brick stores, the first school building
on Madison Street, the first M. E. Church on Madison Street,
the first college building on the hill, called Christian University,
also the first Christian Church building, all of these in Canton,
Missouri. He moved to Canton, Missouri, in 1848, and in the
year 1865 moved to Keithsburg, Illinois, and continued construc¬
tion work until his death, February 28, 1892.

Mary McVickers Buford, his wife, was born April 9, 1819,
died in 1892.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Paschal and Mary
McVickers Buford, married Stephen H. Meyer, October 15, 1869,
at Monmouth, Illinois. Children — Lawrence M., born July 14,
1870; Blanche M., October 6, 1871, and Rose DeLema, June 6,
1875. Mary E. Buford Meyer was born in Monticello, Missouri.
After she was married she lived in Ft. Madison, Iowa, and was
a dressmaker. She died June 21, 1901, at the home of her father
in Keithsburg, Illinois, and was buried in the family lot in the
cemetery there. Her husband, a policeman of Fort Madison,
Iowa, died January 1, 1922, and was buried in Ft. Madison.

10. LAWRENCE M., son of Mary Buford and Stephen H.
Meyer, born in Keithsburg, Illinois, lived in Ft. Madison, Iowa,
He married, first, Lizzie Melenger, of Keithsburg, Illinois. They
took a boy and raised him to young manhood. Lizzie died and

he married Iva - . They have two children, a boy and a

girl. He was an employee of Santa Fe Railroad, until he was
crippled, and since has had other employment.

10. BLANCHE M., daughter of Mary Buford and Stephen
H. Meyer, born in Keithsburg, Illinois, lived in Fort Madison
until she married George Nelson, an employee of the American
Express Company of Chicago. He died. Children — Lewis, Eliz¬
abeth, George, Jr., and Ralph, Chicago, Illinois.

10. ROSE DELEMA, daughter of Mary Buford and
Stephen H. Meyer, lived her childhood days in Fort Madison,

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Iowa, now has a position as bookkeeper in Booth Fisheries,
Wholesale Branch, which includes nine states and Canada.

9. JAMES HENRY, son of Paschal and Mary McVickers
Buford, was born in Monticello, Missouri. Part of his boyhood
was spent in Canton, Missouri, when his father moved to Keiths¬
burg, Illinois. He was a builder — stone and brick mason by
trade — and numerous are the houses he has helped to construct
in Keithsburg. He married Martha May in 1872. No children.
He died at his home in Keithsburg, August 23, 1907. His widow
still lives in Keithsburg, Illinois.

9. MARTHA ANN, daughter of Paschal and Mary Mc¬
Vickers Buford, born in Monticello, Missouri, lived in Canton
for a while, when her parents moved to Keithsburg, Illinois. She
married Henry L. Weishar, of Keithsburg, Illinois, October 21,
1869. He served with the Federal Forces in the Civil War. She
died March 7, 1924. They have one son, William, born April 9,
1872.

10. WILLIAM, son of Martha and Henry Weishar, born in
Keithsburg, Illinois, married Doll Catlin, of Keithsburg, Novem¬
ber 9, 1895. They had one child, Blanche Catlin Weishar, born
September 20, 1897. Her mother died when she was small, and
she was taken and raised by her Grandmother Weishar. She is
now a clerk in one of the stores of Keithsburg.

9. DIANA, daughter of Paschal and Mary McVickers Bu¬
ford, married William Henry Pilcher, December 14, 1873. He
was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, November 18, 1844. He was
a tailor by trade, had a tailor shop and did a big business ; died in
Canton, Missouri, his home.

Children — Arthur Meredith, born January 27, 1875; Wil¬
liam Henry, Jr., December 3, 1879; Paschal Logan, October 31,
1884 ; Mary Belle, August 17, 1887 ; Shadrack Grant, March 27,
1890; George Buford, April 15, 1892; Effie Elizabeth, October
6, 1894, and Sallie Lillian, July 20, 1899.

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10. ARTHUR MEREDITH, son of Diana and Wiliam H.
Pilcher, born in Canton, Missouri, married Alice K. Ward, May
27, 1900, had one child, DeLema Virginia, born April 12, 1901,
died May 20, 1901. He is a barber by trade, and owns and con¬
ducts a barber shop, with bath, in Canton, Missouri.

10. WILLIAM HENRY, JR., son of Diana Buford and
William H. Pilcher, born in Canton, married Nora Eckect, De¬
cember 8, 1901. He also is a barber and runs a shop in Canton,
Missouri. Children — Lillard Arthur, born April 9, 1906; Clar¬
ence Logan, October 7, 1907, and Clyde Adebert, November 15,
1914.

10. PASCHAL LOGAN, son of Diana and William H.
Pilcher, born in Canton, married Rosella Grammer, of Barry,
Illinois, in Quincy, Illinois, May 16, 1906. He is a barber and is
with his brother, Arthur. Children — Russell Whiteside, born
June 7, 1908; Trevor Lionel, October 18, 1910, and Ella Diana,
July 26, 1917. All the children were born in Canton, Missouri.

10. MARY BELLE, daughter of Diana and William H.
Pilcher, born in Canton, Missouri, married William Zahn, a
prosperous farmer. They were married in Quincy, Illinois, Oc¬
tober 2, 1905. Six children, all born in Canton — Logan Andrew,
September 29, 1906; Virginia May, June 19, 1908; William Mere¬
dith, December 23, 1910; Lester Martin, July 13, 1914; Louis
Merle, January 31, 1918, and Robert Lee, April 17, 1921.

10. SHADRACK GRANT, son of Diana Buford and Wil¬
liam H. Pilcher, born in Canton, Missouri, mairied Fiances Car¬
ter, of Canton, Missouri, in Quincy, Illinois, November 28, 1911.
He died March 12, 1912. One child — Shada May, born September
6, 1912. Her mother died soon after the death of her father and
Shada May is being raised by her Grandmother Carter, in Quincy, '
Illinois.

10. GEORGE EUFORD, son of Diana and William H. Pil¬
cher, born in Canton, April 15, 1892, and died September 9, 1906.

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10. EFFIE ELIZABETH, daughter of Diana and William
H. Pilcher, born in Canton and married Lawrence Barth, of
Canton, February 22, 1919. They have one child — Elizabeth
May, born August 3, 1921.

10. SALLIE LILLIAN, daughter of Diana and William H.
Pilcher, born in Canton, Missouri, married Paul Catterall of
Davenport, Iowa, at Canton, Missouri, April 15, 1919. They
have one child — Donald Paul, born August 20, 1920.

9. GEORGE WASHINGTON, son of Paschal and Mary
McVickers Buford, was born in Canton, Missouri. His father
moved to Keithsburg, Illinois, when he was a small boy and he
went to school there and finished a course at the Keokuk Busi¬
ness College, Keokuk, Iowa. It was here he met Miss Effie
Lloyd to whom he was married December 25, 1889. He is an
apprentice of several trades, harness, barber and boat builder.
They have a lovely home in Keithsburg, but spend most of their
winters in the sunny Southland. They love to hunt and fish, and
their royal entertainment for their friends is to take them in
their launch up the river and camp.

He is a stauch member of I. 0. O. F. She is an active worker
in the Rebecca’s and 0. E. S. Chapter. The Lloyd’s were of
Welsh decent, four brothers coming over from Wales and first
settling at Fort Anne, New York. Her grandfather came to
Mercer County, Illinois, in 1834. The old home where she was
reared was a “land warrant from the War of 1812,” and called
by the Indians “High Rise,” because of the view of the surround¬
ing country. Her father was a boy two years old when they
moved there from Erie, Pennsylvania, coming through with a
yoke of oxen and a big covered wagon. His only playmates, un¬
til he was nearly grown, were Indian boys. Her grandfather and
Chief Black Hawk were personal friends, and he also knew Chief
Keokuk well and could speak the Indian language fluently.

Effie Lloyd Buford received her education in the country
schools at Pomeroy, Millersburg and Aledo, all in Illinois, and at

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Keokuk Business College, and between her terms of school she
went to various normal schools. When fourteen years of age
she commenced to teach, teaching the fourth grade in Keithsburg
school for eighteen years and in Mercer County for twenty-five
years. Her period of teaching covered thirty years, and she
gave it up only when sickness in the family demanded her time
and service.

8. JULIANNA, daughter of Abraham and Sophia Lumpkin
Buford, married William Staples, who came to Missouri in 1834,
from Bedford County, Virginia, in company with Henry Buford
and others, in covered wagons. Children — Virginia, Lucy, Ma¬
tilda and Thomas.

9. VIRGINIA married Henry Hewitt, who had the post-
office and ran a store and hotel at Fairmont, Missouri. Children
— Elizabeth, Charles and Daisy.

9. MATILDA married Dr. Winston. They had children.

9. LUCY married Frank Herrick. Children — Virginia,
Hattie and William.

9. THOMAS married Hattie Herrick.

8. WELLINGTON, son of Abraham and Nancy Eidson
Buford, married Amanda Staples, January 21, 1841. She was
born July 16, 1824, in Carrol County, Virginia. Her parents had
left Virginia and moved to Missouri and settled on a large farm
near Monticello, when she was married. Wellington Buford’s
was a very remarkable home in many ways. There were fifteen
children — ten boys and five girls — who were never all
at home at the same time. Some of the oldest left home, went
out West and were married before the younger ones were born.
They were given to hospitality, the “latch string” always hang¬
ing out. Their home was called Buford Hotel. The house was
constructed of logs, with very large rooms (later weather-
boarded), a large hall enclosed between the two front rooms and
rooms above these. The house fronted east, and back of the
north room were two other large rooms, the dining-room and

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kitchen. Another remarkable fact about this large family was
that they were all grown when the father died, he having died
first, the mother following afterward, and the eldest child next.

Wellington Buford passed away at his home where he had
lived so long, January 22, 1888, being seventy years of age. His
faithful companion, Amanda Staples Buford, followed April 18,
1889. They had sixty-four grandchildren, sixty-three great¬
grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Wellington
Buford was born in Bedford County, Virginia, and came to Lewis
County, Missouri, about 1838. After marriage he lived in Lewis
County some six years, and then moved to Knox County, onto the
old homestead, where deer and wild turkey were abundant.
Neighbors were many miles apart, the closest trading point being
Canton, Missouri, some forty miles distant. Smoothly this pio¬
neer life seemed to move until the breaking out of the Civil War,
when many were the hardships endured, and for the safety of
himself and his family he moved to Illinois, but returned in about
a year, as the war was soon closed. He was a deacon in the Har¬
mony Grove Baptist Church, and a wise counselor. He was a
staunch Democrat, with convictions that could not be moved by
every passing wind. Although firm, he was kind and sympa¬
thetic, ever ready to help those less fortunate than himself, and
long since has heard the welcome plaudit, “Come ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founda¬
tion of the world ; for I was an hunger, and ye gave me meat ; I
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink ; I was a stranger and ye took
me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I
was in prison and ye came unto me.” For truly he did these
things. He served as Judge of Knox County, was a member of
the Masonic Order, and was buried with its honors.

Children of Wellington and Amanda Staples Buford — Nancy
Ardelia, born May 27, 1842; George William, December 25, 1843;
Simeon Robert, March 2, 1846; Massanello Ford, June 24, 1848;
Sarah Ellen, May 11, 1850; James Abraham, June 18, 1852; Lucy

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Ann, March 28, 1854; Elizabeth Jane, February 12, 1855; John
Henry, November 17, 1857 ; Charles Hicks, April 7, 1860 ; Edwin
Richardson, January 13, 1862; Wellington Lee, April 14, 1864;
Delaus Jesse, March 8, 1867 ; Amanda Victoria, March 8, 1870,
and Luther Vandiver, August 17, 1873.

9. NANCY A., daughter of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Jesse Lasswell, April 4, 1865. One son
— William W., born March 13, 1870, married Ella Sallee, July 3,
1892. Nancy A. Lasswell died January 22, 1893. They lived on
a good farm near the Harmony Grove Baptist Church, in Knox
County, Missouri, of which she was a devoted and consecrated
member.

9. GEORGE W., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples
Buford, married Angeline Sheckles, November 23, 1871, born
April 4, 1848, and died at her home, March 17, 1914. Children —
six girls, Kate L., born August 23, 1872; Amanda C., February 1,
1874; Elizabeth Ardelia, March 7, 1875; Lottie B., October 18,
1877 ; Lena L., October 5, 1879 ; Virginia, December 2, 1883.
George W. Buford served for six years as judge of the Eastern
District of Scotland County, Missouri. He was a Confederate

soldier, an uncompromising Democrat, a staunch member of A.

F. A. M. Lodge No. 72 of Gorin, Missouri. He died at his home
August 26, 1916, and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery
with Masonic honors. He owned a large farm in Scotland Coun¬
ty, Missouri.

10. KATE L., daughter of George W. and Angeline
Sheckles Buford, married Robert S. Raine, December 3, 1905.
They had no children and lived in Scotland County, Missouri..
She died September 7, 1911.

10. AMANDA C., daughter of George W. and Angeline
Sheckles Buford, married Rupert D. Westcott, September 23,
1917. She had no children, but was a kind and affectionate
mother to her three step-children, Hallie, Guy and Jamie West¬
cott. She also took her niece, Elma Watkins, whom she fostered

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from a baby (see twins below). She died at the St. Joseph Hos¬
pital in Keokuk, Iowa, December 26, 1922. Home, Rutledge,
Missouri.

10. ELIZAEETH ARDELIA, daughter of George W. and
Angeline Sheckles Buford, married Joseph M. Comley, November
3, 1901. One son — Harry Kessler, born August 18, 1906. She
died at the Mayo Hospital, Rochester, Minn., September 5, 1919.
They lived on a farm near Gorin, Missouri.

10. LOTTIE B., daughter of George W. and Angeline
Scheckles Buford, married John R. Comley, June 9, 1901. Chil¬
dren — Sidney Buford, born December 13, 1904, and Adah
Madeline, January 5, 1907. He has an undertaking establish¬
ment and home in Centerville, Iowa.

10. LENA L., daughter of George W. and Angeline
Sheckles Buford, married John Bert Watkins, March 6, 1904.
Children — George A., born February 26, 1910; Elma and Edna
(twins), June 20, 1913; Lena L. Watkins, died April 27, 1915;
Edna was adopted by Elmer H. and Virginia C. Dauma. Elma
was reared by Amanda C. Westcott, until her death. Virginia
Dauma now has the twins. George is kept by his father.

10. VIRGINIA C., daughter of George W. and Angeline
Sheckles, married Elmer H. Dauma, December 25, 1904. They
have a large farm in Knox County and raise fine stock, and own
a nice piece of town property in LaRelle, Missouri, where they
reside.

9. SIMEON ROBERT, son of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Kate Augusta Cooley, January 4, 1877,
who was born January 4, 1857, at Virginia City, Montana. Chil¬
dren — Henry W., born March 4, 1878; infant son, March 9, 1880,
died June 24, 1880; Leah, October 28, 1881, died May 5, 1882;
Bessie B. April 15, 1883, died November 2, 1888; Effie C., No¬
vember 24, 1884; Amy, November 1, 1887, died November 5,
1888; Simeon R., Jr., February 17, 1889, joined the American
Army during the World War at Camp Lewis, Washington,

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August 28, 1918, and died in camp with the “flu,” September
22, 1918, buried at Virginia City, Montana; Ruth C., January 18,
1893.

Simeon R. Buford was born at Canton, Lewis County, Mis¬
souri. He received a common school education in the schools of
his neighborhood, and at the early age of nineteen was thrown
upon his own resources. He crossed the plains in 1865 with
many others. The long journey commenced May 1, and they
arrived at Virginia City, September 6, the same year.

For several years after, he freighted or “bullwhacked,” as
he was pleased to call it, in after years, between Corinne, Ban-
nack and Virginia City. Later he became a clerk in a store of
Raymond Brothers in Virginia City. In the fall of 1878 he
formed a partnership with the late Henry Elling, his brother-in-
law, the firm going under the name of S. R. Buford & Co., which
was dissolved only by death.

Early in the ’80s Elling & Buford purchased the Valley Gar¬
den ranch in the Madison Valley, which became a stage station
for the firm for many years. They owned the mail contract be¬
tween Virginia City, Norris and Pony. In 1894 they entered the
sheep industry and eventually became among the largest owners
of sheep in Madison County.

For many years S. R. Buford was the leader of the Demo¬
cratic party in Southwestern Montana. He remained chairman
of the county central committee until ill health compelled him to
relinquish the office. He was a member of the constitutional
convention’ at the time that Montana entered the Union and be¬
came a state. He was state senator from 1891 to 1893, and re¬
peatedly thereafter refused political preferment, although impor¬
tuned to accept both state and county offices. He was sincere,
upright, generous and rigidly honest in all his business dealings.
Many a prospector will feel a personal loss as he remembers the
kindness and friendly consideration he received at the hands of
S. R. Buford. No blot or blur stained his manhood, purity of

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life and rectitude of conduct, and integrity adorned his laborious
career. He was a member of the order B. P. 0. E., I. 0. 0. F.
and A. 0. U. W., being its past exalted ruler. Simeon R. Buford
died January 15, 1805. His wife, Kate Cooley Buford, died Oc¬
tober 11, 1905.

10. HENRY W., son of Simeon R. and Kate Cooley Buford,
married Florence May Kohls, of Virginia City, Montana, Febru¬
ary 8, 1902. An infant daughter, born March 20, 1918, died the
same day it was born. Home, Ennis, Montana.

10. EFFIE C., daughter of Simeon R. and Kate Cooley
Buford, married William M. Wightman, of New York City, No¬
vember 8, 1909. No children. Home, Ennis, Montana.

10. RUTH C., daughter of Simeon R. and Kate Cooley
Buford, married William H. Lawton, of Ennis, Montana, August
5, 1917. A daughter, Ann, born July 22, 1921. Reside at Ennis,
Montana.

9. MASSANELLO FORD, son of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Julia Ann Carder, March 10, 1870.
Children — Nancy Amanda, born January 29, 1871; Lydia Lee,
September 15, 1872; Clarence Alvin, January 8, 1875; Lucy Ar-
bella, April 22, 1877 ; Laura Elsie, March 3, 1879; Charles Hicks,
July 3, 1881, died May 5, 1906; Bertha Virginia, Januaiy 11,
1883; Mabel Melvin, February 23, 1885; Grover Cleveland, July
19, 1889. Massanello Ford Buford died at his home, May 4, 1918.
His wife, Julia Carder Buford, died December 12, 1918. They
owned and lived on a large farm in Knox County, near Rutledge,
Missouri, were members of Harmony Grove Baptist Church, and
were buried at the church cemetery.

10. NANCY A., daughter of Massanello Ford and Julia
Carder Buford, married William A. Comley. Children — France,
Mabel, Martha and Harrison ; Mabel and Martha are married and
each have children.

10. LYDIA LEE, daughter of Massanello Ford and Julia
Carder Buford, married James H. Tull, December 22, 1890.

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Children — Alvin Perry, born October 28, 1891 ; Gertrude Gladys,
March 19, 1893; Harvey Virgil, February 7, 1895; Seland, May
25, 1897 ; Audrey B., December 3, 1900; James Henry, December
24, 1902; Ralph, October 30, 1904.

Lydia Lee Buford Tull died December 2, 1907. Home, En¬
nis, Montana.

11. GERTRUDE GLADYS, daughter of James H. and
Lydia Lee Buford Tull, married Raymond G. Hays, December 22,
1915, who was born January 8, 1888. Children — Helen Ann,
born October 25, 1917 ; Blanche Eleanor, October 12, 1920; Roxy
Gertrude, August 12, 1922. They reside on farm near Gorin,
Missouri.

11. AUDREY B., daughter of James H. and Lydia Lee Bu¬
ford Tull, married William Gardner. They have two children,
James Lee and Lucille.

10. CLARENCE A., son of Massanello Ford and Julia Car¬
der Buford, married Mrs. Nora Golden, December 5, 1922. He
lives on his father’s old homestead, is a good farmer and raises
fine stock which he shows at the fairs. He also is a stockholder
in the Knox City Fair, Knox County, Missouri.

10. LUCY ARBELLA, daughter of Massanello Ford, and
Julia Carder Buford, married Pearl Windsor. They have one
daughter, Lena, who married Hatton Hustead.

10. LAURA E., daughter of Massanello Ford and Julia
Carder Buford, married John Harr. They have two children —
Archie and Floyd. Home, Newark, South Dakota.

10. BERTHA V., daughter of Massanello Ford and Julia
Carder Buford, married John Clatt. They have two sons, Guy
and Dee.

10. MABEL M., daughter of Massanello Ford and Julia
Carder Buford, married Boone Chaney. They have two children
— Gertrude and Buford.

10. GROVER C., son of Massanello Ford and Julia Carder
Buford, married Allie Harris, February 16, 1911. Children —

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Dean, born August 12, 1912; Marjory, September 9, 1913; Hazel,
February 16, 1915; Charles Westley, November 15, 1916; Mar¬
jory, Hazel and Westley died November 15, 1920.

9. SARAH ELLEN, daughter of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married William D. Short, March 14, . 1870.
Children— Simeon R., born December 23, 1871; Minnie, July 17,
1873, died October 11, 1874; Amanda J., June 1, 1875; Lillie M.,
January 19, 1877 ; William W., November 20, 1879; Edward C.,
September 18, 1881, and Ruth C., December 16, 1892. Mr. Short
was always called “Kid.”

10. SIMEON R., son of William D., and Sarah Ellen Bu«
ford Short, married Mollie E. Anderson January 1, 1891. Chil¬
dren — Effie married William Davis. They have two sons, one
named Robert. May married Merl Cox. They have one daugh¬
ter, Isabelle. Lloyd married a Miss Jones. They have a little
girl. Ida lives at home, Gorin, Missouri.

10. AMANDA J., daughter of William D., and Sarah Ellen
Buford Short, married Lon Dalton, September 11, 1901. One
daughter — Pauline. They own and live on a fine farm near
Gorin, Missouri.

10. LILLIE M., daughter of William D. and Sarah Ellen
Buford Short, married Thomas Hustead, July 2, 1899. Children
— Minnie, who married Virgil Davis; Jeffie, Dee and Lee.

10. WILLIAM W., son of William D. and Sarah Ellen Bu¬
ford Short, married Lucinda Bewley, December 30, 1900. Chil¬
dren — Wallace, Leon and Hollice.

11. WALLACE, son of William W. and Lucinda Short,
married Irma Robinson, January, 1923. They have one little
daughter, Nataline Elizabeth.

10. EDWARD C., son of William D. and Sarah Ellen
Buford Short, married Eva May Carder, September 13, 1905.
Children — Leroy, Nellie and Delbert. They live on a fine farm
near Gorin, Missouri.

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10. RUTH C., daughter of William D. and Sarah Ellen
Buford Short, married Ernest Bertram, February 14, 1912.
Children — Gilvie, Gertrude, Garland, Irene and Richard Earl.
They live on a farm near Colony, Missouri.

9. JAMES A., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples Bu¬
ford, married Alice Golden, January 31, 1872. Children — Daisy,
born June 11, 1875; Lucy, October 3, 1877; Ona, December 28,
1879; Bessie, June 27, 1884; Wallace, August 15, 1894. James
A. Buford has a fine farm near the old homestead of his father,
in northern part of Knox County, Missouri.

10. DAISY, daughter of James A. and Alice Golden Bu¬
ford, married Ray Hustead, February 27, 1898. They live on a
farm near Rutledge, Missouri.

10. LUCY, daughter of James A. and Alice Golden Buford,
married Mort Fowler, May 27, 1889. Children — Pansy and Wil¬
lie May.

10. ONA, daughter of James A. and Alice Golden Buford,
married George Fowler, February 22, 1903. One daughter —
Velma.

10. BESSIE, daughter of James A. and Alice Golden Bu¬
ford, married Clyde Carder, August 18, 1904. Children — Edna,
James and Leo.

10. WALLACE, son of James A. and Alice Golden Buford,
married Vera Tull, October 26, 1916. They live on the farm
with his father.

9. LUCY A., daughter of Wellington and Amanda Staples
Buford, married William Schnebly, January 13, 1889, Chattaroy,
Washington. He is a Baptist minister and attended the Baptist
Louisville Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Son — William Bu¬
ford Braudus, born June 23, 1894. Son served World War.

10. WILLIAM BUFORD BRAUDUS, son of William and
Lucy A. Buford Schnebly, married Elizabeth Cromley, March 24,
1920. Professor in school. They live in Chinook, Montana.

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9. ELIZABETH J., daughter of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Leonidas Rector, July 1, 1877. Children
— Benjamin F., Harry, Blanche and Beulah. Home, Rutledge,
Missouri.

10. BENJAMIN F., son of Leonidas and Elizabeth Buford
Rector, married Carrie McManama, February 4, 1900. They
have three children — Effie, married Leland Dorsey, who has
one child, Nellie Geneva ; Hallie and Selah are single and live at
home.

10. HARRY, son of Leonidas and Elizabeth Buford Rector,
born March 3, 1881, married Bite Thomas, November 27, 1917.

10. BLANCHE, daughter of Leonidas and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford Rector, born January 20, 1883, married Frank McManama
March 13, 1904. They have two children, Harry and. Malie.

10. BEULAH, daughter of Leonidas and Elizabeth Buford
Rector, born February 20, 1885, married Charles Davis, of Colo¬
rado, February 20, 1907. Children — Ocle, Richard and Eliza¬
beth.

9. JOHN H., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples Bu¬
ford, married Annie Simpson, January 25, 1883. They had one
son, Marvin, born December 31, 1883, died at White Sulphur
Springs, Montana, 1920.

9. CHARLES H., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples
Buford, married Mollie C. Steffens, of Virginia City, Montana,
April 7, 1886. Children — Walter W., born February 1, 1888,
and Luther L., December 2, 1889. Mollie C. S. Buford died
August 1, 1923. Charles H. Buford is at present one of the three
Commissioners of Madison County, Montana.

10. WALTER W., son of Charles H. and Mollie Steffens
Buford, married Medora Hyke, January 17, 1917. One child —
Margaret Hicks, born March 3, 1922.

10. LUTHER L., son of Charles H. and Mollie C. S. Buford,
married Maud Idell, September 29, 1920. They have one daugh¬
ter, Marjorie Loren, born May 22, 1921.

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9. EDWIN R., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples Bu¬
ford, married Mary Elizabeth McMurry, August 22, 1885.
Daughter — Audry B., born September 22, 1888. They own a
good farm near Rutledge, Missouri.

10. AUDRY B., daughter of Edwin R. and Elizabeth Mc¬
Murry Buford, married James Dudley Berryman, December 22,
1907. They have one son, Gilvia.

9. WELLINGTON LEE, son of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Mary Effie Wilkinson, September 23,
1888. Children — Nellie Lee, born July 2, 1889; Malie Gertrude,
June 27, 1891; Gilbert Wellington, April 29, 1893; William Cecil,
August 3, 1897, and Simeon Raymond, May 2, 1905. Home,
Gorin, Missouri.

10. NELLIE L., daughter of Wellington L. and Effie Wil¬
kinson Buford, married Alfred Johnson, June 24, 1916. Home,
New York City. He is an electrician. They have no children of
their own but have taken two babies from orphans’ home, and
named them Dickie Dean and Bettie Jeane.

10. MALIE G., daughter of Wellington and Effie Wilkin¬
son Buford, married Dr. Ralph Gray, of Eldora, Iowa. He is a
practicing physician in his home town.

10. GILBERT W., son of Wellington L. and Effie Wilkin¬
son Buford, married Esther Ann Shibley, December 31, 1920.
Son — Billie Bob, born February 18, 1922, died April 23, 1922;
daughter, Helen Darr, June 10, 1923. Gilbert represents a life
insurance company.

10. WILLIAM CECIL, son of Wellington L., and Effie
Wilkinson Buford, married Velma Eilene Kraus, November 11,
1916. Children — William Haden, born May 17, 1918; Charles
Wellington, February 27, 1920, and Virginia Lee, December 15,
1922. William represents a life insurance company.

9. DELAUS JESSE, son of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Jessie M. Bone, at Rutledge, Missouri,
May 6, 1900. They have no family. He is at present postmaster

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at Rutledge, Missouri. He was a personal friend of Miss Ella
Ewing, the Missouri giantess, whose height was eight feet and
four inches. They made trips through the West, with Mr. Bu¬
ford as her manager. He was organizer, secretary and general
manager of the BUFORD REUNION, which meets annually at
Rutledge, Missouri.

9. AMANDA V., daughter of Wellington and Amanda
Staples Buford, married Jonathan W. Sallee, December 29, 1892,
who was born June 24, 1869. Children — Luther 0., born Decem¬
ber 9, 1893, was a volunteer in the service of the United States
Navy during the World War; Reba E., September 18, 1895; Har¬
vey M., October 28, 1896; Ocle A., June 20, 1898; Ella Gretchen,
July 18, 1905.

10. REBA E., daughter of Jonathan W. and Amanda V.
Buford Sallee, married Francis A. Frazee, April 28, 1918, who
was born March 29, 1892. They live on a. farm near Gorin,
Missouri.

10. HARVEY M., son of Jonathan W. and Amanda V. Bu¬
ford Sallee, married Bessie M. Kraus, February 7, 1917. They
live on a farm near Gorin, Missouri.

10. OCLE A., daughter of Jonathan W. and Amanda V.
Buford Sallee, married Pearl L. Creason, October 22, 1919. They
have one son, Pearl, Jr., and live on a farm near Gorin, Missouri.
Luther O. and Ella Gretchen live with their parents, Gorin,
Missouri.

9. LUTHER V., son of Wellington and Amanda Staples
Buford, married Nellie Vickers, September 19, 1895. Children
— Baby, born October 30, 1898, died November 18, 1898; Nellie
A., October 22, 1900; Luther V., Jr., October 31, 1903; Virginia
M., August 26, 1905; Howard W., August 11, 1908. Their home
is Long Beach, California. Luther V. Buford, Sr., has been
Mayor of the city. At present he is superintendent of the water
system. His office is room No. 7 in the City Hall. They own a
nice residence property.

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10. NELLIE A., daughter of Luther V. and Nellie Vickers
Buford, married August 19, 1923, H. N. Rigney. Home, Long
Beach, California.

8. FRANCES, daughter of Abraham and Nancy Eidson
Buford, married Charles Bright Fizer. Children — Mary Ann,
born August 20, 1843, died February 27, 1845; Ella J., Novem¬
ber 30, 1844; Hersilia C., July, 1864; John W., December 19,
1847 ; Charles H., March 3, 1852 ; Jacob A., July 17, 1854 ; George
Simeon, May 6, 1856, was killed at the age of 25, while helping
build a railroad, November 23, 1881. Charles Bright and
Frances Buford Fizer lived and died in Bedford County, Vir¬
ginia.

9. ELLA J., daughter of Charles B. and Frances Buford
Fizer, married C. L. Watson, March 25, 1862, died February 25,
1863.

9. HERSILIA C., daughter of Charles B. and Frances
Buford Fizer, married W. D. Preston, October 25, 1876; both are
dead. She had been twice married before. Children of last
marriage, Henry Simeon, Presto, who married Rutherford and
died a few years after; Carrie, married Enoch, who, with three
children and brother Harry Simeon, lived in Bluefield, West
Virginia.

9. JOHN W., son of Charles B. and Frances Buford Fizer,
married Martha Saunders, November 24, 1873, and with eight
children moved to Kansas about fifteen years ago. All are liv¬
ing at present, 1924, and most of their children are married.

9. CHARLES H., son of Charles Bright and Frances Bu¬
ford Fizer, married Sallie Garrett. They live near Montvale,
Bedford County, Virginia. Children — Warren, Mildred, Julian,
Minnie, Fannie, Charles, Jr., Virgie, Lawrence and Maud.

9. JACOB A., son of Charles Bright and Frances Buford
Fizer, married Belle Stennett. Children — George Simeon, Gor¬
don, Bright, Lillian, Katie, died at the age of 23 with typhoid
fever, Raymond, served in World War, and was wounded by a

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broken piece of shell from machine gun. Since returning home
has married. Erma died in 1918 with “flu,” at the age of 27,
and Melvin. George Simeon lives in Bedford, Virginia, and has
a wife and four children. Bright has a wife and one child and
lives at Craws, Virginia. Gordon has a wife and one child and
lives in Bedford, Virginia. Lillian married Mr. Hogan and lives
in Bedford, Virginia. They have three children. Raymond and
Melvin are both single.

8. MARY M., daughter of Abraham and Nancy Eidson
Buford, married Archibald Hatcher, October 26, 1837, died in
Paris, Texas, leaving three sons and one daughter, Daniel, James,
Don and Virginia, who married J. W. Rodgers of Paris, Texas.
Children — Daniel, Archibald, Charles, Buford, Mamie and Jessie.

8. WILLIAM, son of Abraham and Nancy Eidson Buford,
married Mary Ann Jones, August 1, 1884, born in Wythe County,
Virginia, October 6, 1828, was the daughter of Judge Jones, who
had moved to- Schuyler County, Missouri, and lived at Tippe¬
canoe, three miles southeast of Lancaster, where Mr. Buford had
built a carding machine for Judge Jones. Children — Henry Clay,
born May 3, 1845 ; Virginia Mildred, October 5, 1847 ; Eliza
Catherine, May 16, 1849; Zachariah Taylor, 1851, lived only two
years; James Robert, July 28, 1853; Nancy Jane, June 4, 1855;
Mary Etta, April 4, 1857 ; Abraham Don Carlos, December 20,
1859; William Price, May 4, 1862; Granville Lee, April 3, 1864,
died in infancy; Irena Nelson, May 7, 1865.

William Buford was born in Bufordville, Virginia, what is
now Montvale, Virginia, Bedford County. When he arrived at
manhood he concluded he would try his fortune in the West. He
first came to Lewis County, Missouri, in the spring of 1840. In
the spring of 1843, he went to Schuyler County, where he went
into business. In 1844 he put a card mill in at Clen’s Mills, in
Adair County, and came back to Schuyler County in 1845 and
settled on a farm near Lancaster. In 1849 (got gold fever) he
made a trip overland to California, engaged in gold mining and

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was very successful. He came back with a good share of the
precious metal to his farm in Schuyler County, Missouri, in 1851.
Some time afterwards he moved to Lancaster, Missouri, started
a general store and was there in business till 1860. In that same
year he went to Colorado and remained one year. When he re¬
turned the terrible war cloud of 1861 hung like a pall over all the
land, and as he was the owner of a number of slaves, it was
natural for him to espouse the cause of the South. He, in com¬
pany with several others, raised a troop of eleven hundred men
and went south and joined General Green’s forces. He was made
Major of the regiment and remained in the Confederate service
until the Battle of Lexington. He was then assigned to duty as
a recruiting officer and sent back to his part of the state. Di¬
rectly after he entered this service he was captured by the Fed¬
eral troops and held as a prisoner for some time; but through
the intervention of some of his Union friends, especially Henry
Downing of Scotland County, Missouri, he was released under
certain restrictions that prevented him from again entering the
Confederate service. He then went to Colorado and opened up a
store; besides, he soon became quite an extensive freighter and
employed a number of teams that ran between Missouri River and
points in the West. In 1867 he came back to Schuyler County
again and soon became interested in the woolen mills that were
established in Glenwood, where he had lost a considerable sum
of money. Here, near Glenwood, he and his wife reared a family
of nine children, four sons and five daughters, all of whom are
living, two sons having died in infancy. In later years they sold
their farm and moved into Glenwood, Missouri, making several
trips to California and Colorado, visiting their children. In 1901
they moved to Lancaster, where they lived until Mrs. Buford
died, February 16, 1907. From that time Mr. Buford made his
home with Irena Nelson Buford O’Briant, his youngest daughter,
till his death, December 24, 1914, at the age of ninety-two years.

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9. HENRY C., son of William and Mary Ann Jones Bu¬
ford, married Susan Forrester, December 13, 1868. She was
born April 6, 1850, and died March 9, 1912. Children — Mary
Catherine, born September 17, 1869 ; John Albert, March 7, 1871 ;
Ida Lewis, April 10, 1873; Dora Olive, September 17, 1876;
James Nelson, March 7, 1878, died August 5, 1878; Clarence C.,
October 10, 1879; Lucinda Mildred, January 12, 1882; Roy Mar¬
shall, October, 1886, died March 16, 1887 ; Corda Gladys, October
5, 1888. Residence, Ames, Oklahoma.

10. MARY C., daughter of Henry Clay and Susan For¬
rester Buford, married Frank Hardin, of Ainsworth, Iowa, Oc¬
tober 6, 1891. Children — Mark Henry, born July 16, 1892;
Flossie Estelle, June 22, 1894; Nellie Cleo, died at birth.

11. MARK H., son of Frank and Mary C! Hardin, married
- , September 19, 1917. Daughter — Dorothy, January, 1921.

11. FLOSSIE E., daughter of Frank and Mary C. Hardin,
married Everette Hollowed, March 26, 1917. Son — Hardin
Russel, February 5, 1918.

10. JOHN A., son of Henry C. and Susan Forrester Bu¬
ford, is a farmer and lives at Downing, Missouri.

10. IDA L., daughter of Henry C. and Susan Forrester
Buford, married, July 4, 1912, Rufus L. Loney. One child died
at birth. Farmer and lives at Downing, Missouri.

10. DORA O., daughter of Henry C. and Susan Forrester
Buford, married Oliver Evans. Children — Fern, born August
24, 1900; Leon, November 21, 1901; Oscar, October 27, 1903;
Lennie, July 3, 1905. Farmer and lives at Ames, Oklahoma.

10. CLARENCE C., son of Henry C. and Susan F. Buford,
married Minnie Dillinger, March 23, 1902. Children — Rudy
Opal, born October 1, 1904; Cleo Cloeta, April 10, 1907; Claris
Ethel, February 18, 1911; Royd Russel, January 1, 1913; Eva
Fay, July 13, 1918; Nellie May, July 13, 1920. Farmer and lives
at Downing, Missouri.

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10. LUCINDA M. (Lola), daughter of Henry C. and Susan
F. Buford, married Charles Dillinger. Children — Hazel, born
October 17, 1903 ; Irvin, August 31, 1905 ; Ruth, August 22, 1908 ;
Erma, June 21, 1910; Charles, Jr., May 3, 1912. Home, La Fay¬
ette, Colorado.

10. CORDA G., daughter of Henry C. and Susan F.
Buford, married John Edward Cleeton. Two children — John
Edward, Jr., born April 10, 1920; Edna Pearl, May 2, 1922.
Farmer and lives at Ames, Oklahoma.

9. VIRGINIA M., daughter of William and Mary Ann
Jones Buford, married, March 2, 1865, at Boulder, Colorado,
Admer Nelson Standiford, who was born December 16, 1835, near
Vincennes, Indiana. Children — Mary Etta, born October 30,
1868, and Margaret M.

10. MARY E., daughter of Admer Nelson and Virginia M.
Standiford, married James H. Boren, October 15, 1891, at Mod¬
esto, California. Two children — Mildred Buford, born January
10, 1893 ; Admer Nelson Standiford, April 15, 1895.

11. MILDRED B., daughter of James H. and Mary E.
Standiford Boren, married Adam Paul Meily, November 9, 1913.

11. ADMER N. S., son of James H. and Mary E. S. Boren,
married, July 17, 1920, Bessie Belle Baxter. Son — A. N. Standi¬
ford, Jr., October 18, 1921.

9. ELIZA C., daughter of William and Mary Ann Jones
Buford, married January 20, 1867, John R. Rothrock. Children
— William H., born December 3, 1867 ; John E., April 7, 1869.
Home, Longmont, Colorado.

10. WILLIAM H., son of John R. and Eliza C. Buford
Rothrock, married, April 5, 1893, C. Agnes Dell. Children —
Viola L., born April 3, 1894; Addie E., August 16, 1898; Willie
Ruth, July 8, 1900; William J. J., September 8, 1903; Nelson M.,
March 3, 1908, died March 31, 1908.

10. JOHN E., son of John R. and Eliza C. B. Rothrock,
married Jessie Perrin, May, 1893. Children — -E. Naylor, born

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December 6, 1895; Erma F., June 22, 1899; Thera, January 17,
1901. Jessie Perrin Rothrock died and John E. Rothrock mar¬
ried, second time, K. Blanche McCafferty.

11. E. NAYLOR, son of John E. and Jessie Perrin Roth¬
rock, married Aileen Collens, in 1917. Children — Jessie Caro¬
line, born July 29, 1918; Thema, December 11, 1919; Eliza Jane,
August 27, 1921.

9. JAMES R., son of William and Mary Ann Jones Buford,
married Mary Eliza Lasley, December 5, 1880. Children — Carry
Myrtle, born July 6, 1882; Marvin Edward, July 25, 1885; John
Price, October 21, 1887 ; Anna May, June 3, 1892. Home, Kiowa,
Kansas.

10. CARRY M., daughter of James R. and Mary Eliza Las¬
ley Buford, married Charles Geery, October 9, 1904. No children.
Undertaker, and home at Kiowa, Kansas.

10. MARVIN E., son of James R. and Mary E. Las¬
ley, married Margaret McNeil Epps, September, 1910. Child —
Ruth Eveline, born August 2, 1911, died February 22, 1922.

10. JOHN P., son of James R. and Mary E. L. Buford,
married Renna Belle Geery, September 3, 1907. Two children —
Orin James, born May 4, 1909; Juanita Mae, September 11, 1913.
Farmer, and lives at Ames, Oklahoma.

10. ANNA M., daughter of James R. and Mary E. L. Bu¬
ford, married Lester Turner, April 2, 1919. Children — Velma
Mae, born July 5, 1920; Vivian Lucille, November 28, 1921.
Farmer and lives near Lancaster, Missouri.

9. NANCY JANE, daughter of William and Mary Ann
Jones Buford, married Austin Reed, April 16, 1871, who was
born December 1, 1839. Children — William, born February 22,
1872; Dora Belle, September 21, 1873; Ruth B., January 13, 1879.

Nancy J. Buford and Austin Reed were married at Glen-
wood, Missouri. His children were all born at Lancaster, Mis¬
souri, except Ruth B., who was born at Oakdale, California. They
moved to Colorado, near Longmont, in 1878, and in April, 1880,

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journeyed on to California and lived in Modesto for two years;
from there they went to Oakdale and engaged in farming. Here
their son, William, died October 23, 1894; also Austin Reed
died, August 25, 1903, and then his wife and daughter, Ruth
E., moved to San Jose, California, to make their home. May 16,
1913, Mrs. N. J. Reed married, for her second husband, J. R. Cass-
ingham, came east on a bridal trip, visited relatives in Colorado,
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and attended the Buford Re¬
union at Rutledge, Missouri, August 26, 1923, which they enjoyed
very much.

10. DORA B., daughter of Nancy Jane Buford and Austin
Reed, married Benjamin Burgess, June 20, 1894. He died April
25, 1905, and she married, for her second husband, Henry Kolbe,
March 31, 1907.

9. MARY E., daughter of William and Mary Ann Jones
Buford, married Robert Franklin Boze, November 23, 1875, who
was born August 31, 1855, at Liberty, Wayne County, Illinois.
He was a pioneer veterinarian of Northern Colorado. He died
October a, 1921. Children — Daisy, born September 20, 1876;
William Alvin, March 12, 1878; James Carlos, July 10, 1880.

10. JAMES C., son of Mary E. Buford and Robert Frank¬
lin Boze, married Hettie Miller, March 23, 1902. Children — Eva-
lin Frankie, born April 27, 1908; Wilma Alice, April 13, 1915;
William Alvin, Jr., December 26, 1919.

9. ABRAHAM DON C., son of William and Mary Ann
Jones Buford, married Minnie Woodson, June 14, 1911, at Lan¬
caster, Missouri. Their home is in Sunshine Valley, New Mexico.

9. WILLIAM P., son of William and Mary Ann Jones Bu¬
ford, married Clara Belle Morris, March 7, 1886, in Schuyler
County, Missouri. Children — Don Leroy, born December 2,
1888; Nelson Milton, March 16, 1890; Mervel Morris, January
24, 1901. Clara Belle Morris Buford was born June 16, 1863,
and died August 25, 1911, in Blaine County, Oklahoma. William
Price Buford married, for his second wife, Mrs. Jennie Morehead

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Widely, of Crab Orchard, Nebraska, February 17, 1915. Their
home, Guymon, Oklahoma.

10. DON L., son of William P. and Clara Belle Morris Bu¬
ford, born in Schuyler County, Missouri, grew to manhood and
received his education at Wood’s College, Oklahoma. He enlisted
in the regular army at the time America entered the World War
and served six months with the A. E. F. in France. He is not
married, 1922.

10. NELSON M., son of William P. and Clara Belle Morris
Buford, born in Schuyler County Missouri, grew to manhood in
Wood County, Oklahoma, received his education at Wood’s Col¬
lege, Oklahoma, and Pueblo College, Colorado. He was employed
as head bookkeeper of the Pueblo Gas and Fuel Company, Pueblo,
Colorado. At the time America entered the World War he en¬
listed in the United States Marine Corps, June 1, 1917; was sent
to France, February, 1918; was Corporal of the 34th Company,
First Replacement Battalion, U. S. A., M. C., at the time of death,
which, according to government reports, occurred in action June
9, 1918. He was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Kiowa, Kansas,
January 10, 1922. He was unmarried.

10. MARVEL M., son of William P. and Clara Belle Mor¬
ris Buford, is unmarried, a farmer and lives in Texas County near
Guymon, Oklahoma.

9. NELSON IRENA, daughter of William and Mary Ann
Jones Buford, born in Boulder County, Colorado, married Wil¬
liam Calvin O’Briant, January 30, 1889, who was born Septem¬
ber 19, 1864. Children — Edna Buford, born April 29, 1894;
Lloyd Buford and Boyd Buford (twins), May 20, 1905. Home,
Lancaster, Schuyler County, Missouri.

10. EDNA B., daughter of William C. and Nelson Buford
O’Briant, married Arlie E. Girton, December 14, 1916. Daughter
— Elizabeth Buford Girton, born July 6, 1922. Lives on farm
near Lancaster, Missouri.

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8. SIMEON, son of Abraham and Nancy Eidson Buford,
married Francis M. Cofer ,of Paris, Texas. Children — Lillian
A., born November 2, 1861 ; Prudence B., October 5, 1863 ; James
Sidney, July 17, 1865; Talma W., May 30, 1874. All live in Pat-
tonville, Texas.

Simeon Buford and his wife are both dead.

9. LILLIAN A., daughter of Simeon and Frances Cofer
Buford, married Dr. Samuel McCustion.

9. PRUDENCE B., daughter of Simeon and Frances Cofer
Buford, married Capt. Silas B. Zainter.

9. JAMES SIDNEY, son of Simeon and Frances Cofer
Buford, married Minnie McCustion.

NANCY A., daughter of Abraham and Nancy Eidson Bu¬
ford, married George P. Luck, September 11, 1844, who was a
Baptist minister. They had twelve children — Edward W., Rev.
Julian M., Dr. George Simeon, Mary Eliza, John Bumpus, Abra¬
ham Buford (his twin died in infancy), Nannie, Rev. James
Paschal, Emma Carlton (Collie), Robert Hugh, and another child
died in infancy.

9. EDWARD W., son of George P. and Nancy Buford Luck,
married Sallie Royal, of Powhatan. Children — William E., Mary
Buford, Nannie, died early in life, and Lottie. Sallie Royal Luck
died, and Edward W. Luck married, for his second wife, Nannie
Cofer, who now survives him.

Edward William Luck, born in Bufordville, now Montvale,
Bedford County, Virginia, was the eldest of twelve children, and
one of the prominent men of his county. He was a man of ability,
intregrity and true kindliness of character, a member of the
Baptist church from the time he was nineteen years of age ; for
many years commissioner of revenue in his district, and served
on the school board. At the outbreak of the Civil War he volun¬
teered and served with distinction in Company A., Second Vir¬
ginia Cavalry. At the time of his death he was adjutant of
Joseph E. Johnston Camp of Confederate Veterans. He possessed

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as many friends as any other man in Bedford County, all of
whom were deeply grieved at his sudden death. He died Feb¬
ruary, 1921, being in his seventy-sixth year.

10. WILLIAM E., son of Edward W. and Sallie Royal
Luck, married and has four children. One daughter, Mary
Royal, lives in Henton, West Virginia.

9. REV. JULIAN M., son of George P. and Nancy Buford
Luck, a Baptist minister, married Pattie Arnold, who died sev¬
eral years ago. Children — Wilma, married Mr. Cunningham,
lives in Princeton, West Virginia; Cora, married W. A. Dickens
(they have lost their two children, and her father is making his
home with her) ; Dr. Eugene, married Ann Hobday, lives in
Roanoke City, Virginia, and has a sweet little girl, Annie;
Julia, a trained nurse, makes her home with her sister, Cora;
Lula, has a government position in Washington, D. C.

9. DR. GEORGE SIMEON, son of George P. and Nancy
Buford Luck, married Lula Moorman, of Roanoke, and spent a
long and honored life there, not only giving relief to the body,
but leading and pointing many to the Savior who heals all dis¬
eases and forgives all sins. Children — Elva, Nannie, John,
George Simeon, Mattie, Mary, Malcoln and Lucille.

Elva married Mr. Anderson, and they have three children.
Elva Luck Anderson died a few years ago with the “flu.”
Nannie married Mr. Mason, and they have ten children;
John never married, is a professor of mathematics in the
University of Virginia; George Simeon married Miss Bell,
and with two children live in Roanoke, Virginia; Mat-
tie married Mr. Peck, and with one child lives at Victoria, Vir¬
ginia; Mary married Mr. Richardson, and lives in Roanoke with
one little boy; Malcoln — spent three years in France, lieutenant
of Field Artillery, World War — and Lucille are both single.

9. MARY E., daughter of George P. and Nancy A. Buford
Luck, married Capt. Robert B. Schenk, and lives in Montvale, Vir¬
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one son, Beryl, who is in school at University of Virginia; George
married Bessie Kasey who died a few years ago, leaving him a
widower with four children; Robert married Gilmer Hatcher,
they have four boys; Minnie married Eugene C. Whitehurst and
lives in Roanoke with three children.

Captain Robert B. Schenk died in December, 1923.

9. NANNIE, daughter of George P. and Nancy A. B.
Luck, married, in Roanoke, Virginia, John Barnett. They had
eight children — Maurice, married Lizzie Davidson (they have
children unmarried) ; Dr. Warren, never married, died 1920;
George S., married Emma Zink, has three children living
and three dead; Annie May, married J. Kyle Montague, and
have four little boys, Roanoke, Virginia; Frank, married Cordia
Reese and was thrown from a horse and instantly killed soon
after marriage; Walter, married Adrian Coles, and he and his
wife, with one little girl, live in Bluefield, West Virginia ; Charles,
married Susan Jordan and has two little children in Roanoke,
Virginia ; Abraham EUford is unmarried and was in France three
years, an officer in World War.

Both John and his wife, Nannie, are deceased.

9. JOHN B., son of George P. and Nancy A. B. Luck, mar¬
ried Effie Golden and has two boys, Hugh and Julian, the former
an officer in World War in France two years. Home, Gorin,
Missouri.

9. ABRAHAM BUFORD, son of George P. and Nancy A.
B. Luck, a civil engineer, married Nannie Sanders. He was killed
in a railroad wreck three years after marriage. Two children —
Abraham Buford, Jr. (Abraham Buford Luck, Jr., served two
years in France in World War), and Louise, who was born two

months after her father’s death. The widow married again, after
twenty years, to a former lover.

9. REV. JAMES PASCHAL, son of George P. and Nancy
A. B. Luck, married George Fizer. Children — George, Manly,
Alvah, James Paschal, Jr., Gilbert, Mary Estelle and Calvin, all

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of whom are unman ied. George and Alvah were in the service in
World War. Home, Bedford, Virginia.

9. EMMA C. (Collie), daughter of George P. and Nancy
A. Buford Luck, married Benjamin McGee. Children — Eula,
married Jack Wooldridge; Robert, unmarried, service of World
War, and “Bennie,” Jr., (daughter), called after her father,
whom she never saw, married Mr. Maupin. Home, Bedford City,
Virginia. Robert was in service in World War.

9. ROBERT H., son of George P. and Nancy A. Buford
Luck, married Lillian Hatcher. Children — Wellington, Edward,
Effie Golden, Archie, Aubrey, Helen and Simeon. All are single
except Wellington, who married Gladys Arrington.

8. JAMES L., son of Abraham and Nancy Eidson Buford,
married, April 9, 1857, Mary Lee Glasscock, daughter of Bailey
and Lucy T. (Kerfoot) Glasscock, born in Londoun County, Vir¬
ginia, June 4, 1837. Children — Fanny E., born December 28,
1857 ; Virginia Etta, March 3, 1859, in Lancaster, Schuyler
County, Missouri; Lucy Temple, October 30, 1861, in Clark
County, Missouri; Wellington Marshal, October 10, 1863, in
Knox County, Missouri; Mary, September 8, 1867 ; Nannie, June
26, 1869 ; Robert William, in Clark County, Missouri, September
4, 1870; Joseph Luck, in Clark County, Missouri, March 3, 1873,
and a little son, died in infancy.

James L. Buford was born in Bedford County, Virginia, the
youngest of fourteen children. His father, Abraham Buford,
was married twice, and his mother’s name was Nancy A. (Eid¬
son) Buford. The parents were old Virginians and were mar¬
ried in their native county, where they were engaged in farming
in early life, carding wool, burning lime, etc. During the War
of 1812 the father was appointed to superintend the building for
winter quarters.

Politically he was an old line Whig. They were strict mem¬
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a happy death, trusting in Jesus until called home to meet his
reward, which was in the year of 1846.

His son, James L. Buford, while yet in his teens, left the
parental roof and emigrated to Knox County, Missouri. After
staying there for a few years, he returned to the place of his
birth and remained at home for a short time and then came to
Missouri again, and in the year 1852 he emigrated to California
and spent the most of his time in mining gold, four years. After
returning to Missouri, in the fall of 1856, he received word that
his mother was near the point of death, and he hastened to old
Virginia, but she was dead before he arrived. After spending
a few months with his brothers and sisters, he again returned
to Knox County, Missouri, where he married, in the spring of
the following year.

In 1861, he was mustered into service and was made captain
by the vote of the men enrolled in the service of the State Guard
under Gov. Jackson, who was governor of Missouri. His sympa¬
thies were with the South, but he loved the old flag, not the prin¬
ciples of the North. He was in several battles, in some on the
winning side, other he lost. In 1863, he was sent back to North¬
ern Missouri, recruiting, and was captured and placed under
bond of $12,000 not to aid the South — a hard price, yet he took
it and never shouldered a gun in behalf of the South again. He
remained a paroled prisoner during the rest of the war, and for
the safety of his family and himself, he moved to Iowa in Jan¬
uary, 1865. In December, following, he came back to Knox
County and remained there for two years, farming, having lost
all he had during the war.

Mr. Buford and his wife were consistent members of the
Missionary Baptist Church.

In February, 1868, he moved to Clark County, Missouri, to a
portion of the B. R. Glasscock estate, which was inherited by
his wife. There he farmed, reared eight children to manhood
and womanhood, and after they were grown, some married, others

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left and were making homes for themselves, but his youngest
daughter remained at home with them.

In December, 1893, he rented his farm in Clark County and
came to live with his two sons, Wellington and Robert, who had
bought a farm of 231 acres near Harmony Grove Church. There
he spent his last days, a true Christian, always ready to lend a
helping hand to relieve the suffering and giving words of com¬
fort to the sorrowing, until July 17, 1902, when God said, “Well
done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over
a few things, thy work is done, come up higher and enter thou
into the joys of thy Lord.” He told his children and heart¬
broken companion not to grieve, he would soon be at rest with
his Lord. All his children, but his youngest son, Joseph, who
was married and lived in Montana, and could not get there in
time, were by his bed-side. His last words were, “God bless my
baby boy. I never will see him on this earth; tell him to meet
me up yonder, where there will be no more sorrow and weeping,**
and thus he passed away. He was a loving husband and father
and will never be forgotten, for he was endeared to every one
that knew him.

Mary Lee Glasscock Buford died August 10, 1920.

9. FANNY E., daughter of James L. and Mary Lee Glass¬
cock Buford, married, May 30, 1888, Newton J. Fordny. No
children. He died July 11, 1913, and Fannie E. married, second,
Joseph Hicks, July 3, 1921, of Scotland County, Missouri.

9. VIRGINIA E., daughter of James L. and Mary L. Glass¬
cock Buford, married, March 15, 1876, J. Franklin Kerfoot, of
Lewis County, Missouri. Children — Addie May, born September
16, 1877; Leonard, April 3, 1880; Horace Rolfe, June 28, 1881;
Lucille, June 1, 1883; Clarence Franklin, October 14, 1885; Ida
Lela, April 20, 1890, died May 26, 1891; Bessie Blanche, July
6, 1894; Fanny Verda, November 15, 1896; Gladys Fern, De¬
cember 7, 1900. Living in Clark County, Missouri.

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10. ADDIE M., daughter of J. Franklin and Virginia E.
B. Kerfoot, married Ed. Lasswell, September 23, 1900. Children
— Aubrey William, born February 6, 1902, died September 2,
1905 ; Felix Milton, August 26, 1904 ; Julian Raymond, November,
1905; Forrest Franklin, March 24, 1908; Leland Edward, Jan¬
uary 2, 1910; Willie Weston, February 10, 1912; Virginia Lu¬
cille, November 13, 1913; Willis James, June 14, 1917, died Oc¬
tober 17, 1917 ; Lola May, September 28, 1918. Home, Lewis-
town, Lewis County, Missouri.

10. HORACE R., son of J. Franklin and Virginia E. G.
Kerfoot, married, February 20, 1906, Bertha Raine. Children —
Bernice Marie, born March 15, 1908, died March 25, 1909 ; Zola
Jaunita, June 13, 1910; Genevieve Pearl, August 28, 1912;
Frances Margaret, April 12, 1915, died February 28, 1916; John
Rolfe, March 21, 1917 ; Dema Pauline, March 25, 1919; Raymond
Edward, May 4, 1921. Home, Clark County, Missouri.

9. LUCY T., daughter of James L. and Mary L. G. Buford,
married, January 12, 1887, Michiel A. Coffman. Children —
Pearl L., born December 15, 1894, died December 28, 1894; Earl
M., September 27, 1900. The latter served three years in World
War. Home, Marceline, Missouri.

9. WELLINGTON M., son of James L. and Mary L. G.
Buford, is not married. Home, Gorin, Missouri.

9. MARY, daughter of James L. and Mary L. G. Buford,
married, March 12, 1893, William C. Reynolds. No children.
Home, Rutledge, Missouri.

9. NANNIE, daughter of James L. and Mary L. G. Buford,
is unmarried and lives on her farm near Gorin, Missouri.

9. ROBERT W., son of James L. and Mary L. G. Buford,
married Nannie Isabel Purdy, December, 1902. She was born
August 4, 1879. Children — Mary Thelma, born September 24,
1903; Eleanor Clyde, July 13, 1905; James Miller, January 27,
1906; Mildred Lucille, April 12, 1909; William Woodrow, Novem¬
ber 17, 1912 ; Robert Wellinger, Jr., October 3, 1915 ; Roberta Nell,

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September 30, 1918. Home, on a farm near Colony, Knox
County, Missouri.

9. JOSEPH L., son of James L. and Mary L. G. Buford,
married in Montana, May 1, 1902, Annie Nickles, of Knox County,
Missouri. Two boys — Carson C., born September 9, 1906, near
Alder, Montana; son, born September 25, 1908, dying the same
day of birth, and the mother dying the same day, also. Joseph
L. Buford married, for second wife, December, 1909, Mrs. May
Leighman, of Alder, Montana. Children — Clifford Barnell, born
October 11, 1910, in Virginia City, Montana; Donald Williams,
near Alder, Montana, March 21, 1912; Joseph Leon, September
26, 1914, near Alder, Montana. The mother died and the father
came back to Missouri, and is living on a farm near Rutledge,
and his son, Carson C., is with him, while Clifford and Donald
live with their aunt, Mrs. William Reynolds, and Joseph is with
his Aunt Nannie Buford, near Gorin, Missouri.

7. HENRY, JR., son of Henry and Mildred Blackburn Bu¬
ford, married Jane Sherman, August 22, 1799. Children — Albert
Sherman, born 1800; Hopkins Otey, 1802; Elizabeth Will, 1804;
Mildred, Julia, Duncastle, Mack, Harriet and Caroline.

8. HOPKINS OTEY, son of Henry, Jr., and Jane Sherman
Buford, married, first, Jane Middleton. Children — Henry, born,
1823, died in 1823; John, 1824, died, 1824; Parmelia, died in in¬
fancy; E. M., August, 1826, married Jane Hill, who died in the
service of the Confederate States Army; Luterpsey M., 1832,
married John C. Grayson, and died in 1857 ; Eldridge C., April
17, 1834, died in 1862, in the Confederate States Army; William
Duncastle Sherman, May 23, 1836; Silas Otey, 1841. Hopkins
Otey married, for his second wife, Harriet Hodge, October, 1847.
Son — Thomas, born in 1848. Hopkins Otey married, for his third
wife, Cyntha Taylor, in 1855. Children — Alcaner Watkins, born
June 5, 1856; James, 1858; Albert Drake, 1860.

9. WILLIAM DUNCASTLE SHERMAN, son of Hopkins
Otey and his first wife, Jane Middleton Buford, married Mary

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L. Henard. Children— John Hopkins Otey, born May 16, 1861 ;
William Eldridge, July 24, 1863. William D. S. Buford married
Margaret Ann Smith, for his second wife. No children.

10. JOHN HOPKINS OTEY, son of William Duncastle
Sherman and Mary Henard Buford, married, for his first wife,
E. Fletcher; married, for second wife, Eliza Whitaker, Decem¬
ber 10, 1884. Children — Lula Ann, born March 2, 1886; Mary
Florence, July 14, 1887 ; Maggie Estelle, February 16, 1889; Otey
Jackson, November 11, 1890; Elby D., March 27, 1892, died
October 30, 1892; Bessie Lee, September 29, 1893; William Gor¬
don, September 14, 1895; Robert Duncan, March 11, 1900; John
Elridge, May 14, 1902; Lydia Virginia, July 5, 1904. Eliza Whit¬
aker Buford, wife of J. H. O. Buford, died November 23, 1906.
Lula Ann Buford Doran died October 10, 1913. Residence, New
Hope, Alabama.

10. WILLIAM ELDRIGE, son of William Duncastle Sher¬
man and his first wife, Mary Henard Buford, married Fannie
B. Cooper, January 26, 1886. Children- — Claude Owen, born
September 8, 1887 ; John William, February 22, 1889 ; Cora May,
February 10, 1892; Britton Jackson, January 24, 1894; Harry
Robert, August 24, 1895. Residence, New Hope, Alabama.

9. ALCANER WADKINS, son of Hopkins Otey and his
third wife, Cynthie Taylor Buford, married Malinda Elizabeth
Woody, July 25, 1882. Children— Mary Lillian, born August
14, 1883; Maggie May, September 15, 1885, died November 19,
1885; Lelia Wilmer, September 13, 1886; Annie Laura, August
20, 1889; Nora Ethel, October 5, 1891; Kate Caroline, July 31,
1893. Residence, San Gabriel, Texas.

8. ELIZABETH WILLS, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane
Sherman Buford, married Elijah Drake. Children — James Mon¬
roe, dead; Jane Elizabeth, married David Allison; John Henry,
married, first wife, Miss Wortham; second wife, Miss Anderson;
Zachariah N., married Rosanna Sharron; William A., dead;
Thomas B., married N. B. Anderson ; Elijah W. ; Robert J. ; Wade

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N., married Francis Moore; Frances C.; Robert S. ; McGaha;
Julia Ann, married Joseph R. Morris; Charlotte T., dead; Charles
D., dead.

8. MILDRED, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford,
married, first, William Bondurant; second husband, Mr. Lead-
better.

8. JULIA, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford,
married Dempsey Vann and died in 1870.

8. DUNCASTLE, son of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford,
married, first, and had a son, Curtis Otey; married for second
wife, Susan Roach. Children — Jane, Martha, Grundy, George,
died young; John A., born, 1845; Robert Stanfield, 1847 ; Walker
Duncastle; and Victoria.

9. CURTIS OTEY, son of Duncastle and first wife, married
Lavinia Elizabeth McGaha, February 3, 1862. Children — John
Hopkins, born March 25, 1866; Martha Jane, December 22, 1867,
died May, 1868; Mary Frances, September 27, 1868, died No¬
vember, 1870; William Walter, March 4, 1871; Ellen Catherine,
February 12, 1874; Lamar, March 10, 1876, died November,
1878; Jessie Magdalen, March 15, 1880, died August, 1888; Otey,
December 9, 1883, died July 9, 1896. Home, England, Arkansas.

10. ELLEN C., daughter of Curtis O. and Lavinia McGaha
Buford, married William C. Templeman, June, 1892. Live in
Little Rock, Arkansas.

9. JANE, daughter of Duncastle and Susan R. Buford,
married Samuel Latham.

9. MARTHA, daughter of Duncastle and Susan R. Buford,
married Samuel C. Carpenter.

9. JOHN, son of Duncastle and Susan R. Buford, married
Sarah Hunt, died in 1865.

9. ROBERT STANFIELD, son of Duncastle and Susan R.
Buford, married, for his first wife, Margaret Hicks, December
15, 1865; for second wife, Parlee McKinsey Sewell, May 3, 1869.
Children — John William, born in 1870; James Walker, 1873; Bed-

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ford Forest, 1875; Robert McKinsey, 1878. He married, for
third wife, Mrs. Mary C. Carpenter (born Ellett), July 15, 1880.
Children — Isaac Davidson and Harriet Ann.

10. JOHN WILLIAM, son of Robert S. and Parlee M.
Sewell Buford, married Nannie B. Bush, December 18, 1890. Son
— Robert King.

10. BEDFORD F., son of Robert S. and Parlee M. S. Bu¬
ford, married Rebecca Bush in 1890.

9. WALTER DUNCASTLE, son of Duncastle and Susan
R. Buford, married, for first wife, Susan Latham, and for second
wife, Emily Green.

9. VICTORIA, daughter of Duncastle and Susan R. Buford,
married Thomas Carpenter.

8. FRANCES, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford,
married John Carpenter, died in 1846.

8. MACK, son of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford, married
Annie Wills.

8. HARRIET, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Buford,
married Daniel Ledbetter, died in 1869.

8. CAROLINE, daughter of Henry, Jr., and Jane S. Bu¬
ford, married Newton Mosley, Sr.

7. PRUDENCE, daughter of Henry and Mildred Blackburn
Buford, married Jonathan Blackburn, November 6, 1796, who
was born in 1776, a son of George, a brother of Mildred B. Bu¬
ford and Prudence Betty Blackburn. Son — William Buford, born
April 27, 1799. Jonathan and Prudence settled in Woodford
County, Kentucky, where he died in March, 1834. She went
with her son, William B., to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1845, where
she died in May, 1855.

8. WILLIAM BUFORD, son of Jonathan and Prudence
Buford Blackburn, married Mary Ann Bohannon/February 18,
1818, who was born October 22, 1802. Children — Edward Church¬
ill, born January 25, 1820; George Ann, May 31, 1825; Jona¬
than T., June 22, 1828; Luke P., May 28, 1835; Prudence, March

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6, 1837 ; Ellen, March 6, 1839, died July, 1849. Residence, Wood¬
ford County, Kentucky, until 1845, after that, St. Louis, Mis¬
souri, where William B. Blackburn died in December, 1847. Mary
B. Blackburn died at Ferguson, Missouri, December 24, 1891.

9. EDWARD CHURCHILL, son of William B. and Mary
B. Blackburn, married, May 16, 1843, Virginia Norris, of Cin¬
cinnati, Ohio, born, 1828. No children.

Edward Churchill Blackburn was killed November 1, 1855,
by the fall of the Gasconade Bridge. Residence, St. Louis, Mis¬
souri. His widow married William R. Pye, and died in 1872.

9. GEORGE ANN, daughter of William B. and Mary B.
Blackburn, married, September 3, 1846, Henry Lee Dorsett, born
June 22, 1823. Son — Walter B., born June 12, 1852. Henry L.
Dorsett died November 8, 1857. Residence, St. Louis, Missouri.
His widow resides at Ferguson, Missouri.

10. WALTER B., son of Henry Lee and George Ann B.
Dorsett, married, October 20, 1880, Eleanor Crocker French, born
January 30, 1860. Son — Edward Leonidas, born August 15,
1883, St. Louis, Missouri.

9. JONATHAN T., son of William B. and Mary B. Black¬
burn, never married. He was killed by the explosion of the
steamer, Saluda, on the Mississippi River, April 9, 1852.

9. GEORGE WILLIAM, son of William B. and Mary B.
Blackburn, married, May 15, 1857, Katheryn Rienzi, born in 1838.
Children — Charles R., born January 22, 1859; George W., 1861;
Annie Ross, January 21, 1863; Sarah C., November, 1866. George
W., was lost by the burning of steamer, Stonewall, October 28,
1868. Residence, St. Louis, Missouri.

10. CHARLES R., son of George W. and Katheryn R.
Blackburn, married Isabel Jackson, and lives in Houston, Texas.

10. GEORGE W., son of George W. and Katheryn B. Black¬
burn, married Margaret Berry, of Virginia, and lives at Fergu¬
son, Missouri.

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10. ANNIE ROSS, daughter of George W. and Katheryn
R. Blackburn, married G. V. Groop.

9. LUKE P., son of William B. and Mary B. Blackburn,
married in 1857, Lucy Frick. Son — Edward Churchill, 2d, born
January, 1858. Luke P. died January 29, 1878. Lucy F. died in
1882. Residence, Keithsburg, Illinois.

10. EDWARD CHURCHILL, 2d, son of Luke P. and Lucy
F. Blackburn, married Belle Stuart. Children — Walter Dorsett
and Virginia. Residence, Keithsburg, Illinois.

9. PRUDENCE, daughter of William B. and Mary B. Black-
well, married, May 14, 1858, James P. McKenney, born Novem¬
ber 21, 1832. Children — Helen Gussie, born June 22, 1859 ; Anne
Powell, January 25, 1862; Virginia Churchill, February 11, 1864;
George A., November 11, 1865; Louise Pye, June 22, 1877. Prud¬
ence B. McKenney died December 13, 1896.

10. HELEN G., daughter of James P. and Prudence B.
McKenney, married , in January, 1881, James Irvin Barret.
Children — Irvin and Helen. James Irvin Barret died in Decem¬
ber, 1884.

10. ANNE P., daughter of James P. and Prudence B. Mc¬
Kenney, married, October 20, 1882, L. W. Day, of St. Louis, Mis¬
souri. Children — Sturgis, Clifford and one other.

10. VIRGINIA C., daughter of James P. and Prudence B.
McKenney, married F. G. Ziebig, of St. Louis, Missouri, Septem¬
ber 28, 1888. Children — Virginia, Prudence, Charles Hunt, Eliza
and Douglas Churchill. Residence, Normandy, Missouri.

10. GEORGIA A., daughter of James P. and Prudence B.
McKenney, married Wilson P. Hunt, June 9, 1887. Child —
Wilson Ann, Normandy, Missouri.

10. LOUISE PYE, daughter of James P. and Prudence B.
McKenney, married Oscar Reid, November 10, 1897.

7. PASCHAL, son of Henry and Mildred Blackburn Bu¬
ford, married Frances Ann Otey, October 31, 1820. She was the
daughter of Major Isaac and Elizabeth Matthews Otey. Children

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CAPTAIN PASCHAL BUFORD

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— James Hervey, and Neeta (twins), born July 6, 1821, Neeta
died August 26, 1821; Mildred Elizabeth, November 19, 1822;
John Quincy Adams, July 29, 1824; Mary Charlotte, January
3, 1826, died July 1, 1826; Rowland Dabney, September 20, 1827 ;
Ann Jane, April 22, 1830; Julius Blackburn, November 22, 1832;
Margaret Letitia, February 17, 1835; Isaac Henry, September
25, 1838. Paschal Buford died at “Locust Level,” Burordville,
Bedford County, Virginia, July 23, 1875, at the place of his birth
and home of his long life.

Capt. Paschal Buford was well and widely known. His
honest, outspoken nature made him a man to be remembered in
social and every-day life. He had no concealments and no dis¬
guises, but spoke out with honest independence whatever was in
his thoughts. For deception, pretense, or false pride he had no
toleration. He was natural, and wished others to be so. He
loved his broad acres, fat cattle, and blooded horses. As a farmer
and breeder of fine stock, he was well known throughout the
state. A lifelong success crowned his active efforts in these de¬
partments of industry, and he leaves the fruits behind him in an
ample estate. No Virginia home was ever the center of more
generous and bounteous hospitality than his. In the War of
1812 he was an officer, and commanded a company at Crany
Island. In the Civil War his hand and heart were with the South
and her soldiers. By his invitation the wife and daughter of
General Robert E. Lee spent a summer at his home during the
war between the states. In 1867 General Lee, then President of
Washington and Lee University, accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Mildred, paid a visit to Captain Buford and his family.

8. JAMES HERVEY, son of Paschal and Frances Otey
Buford, married, October 8, 1857, Lucy E. Hanson, daughter of
William H. Hanson, of Wytheville, Virginia. Children — Paschal,
2d, born November 14, 1858; Katherine, born and died May 23,
1860; William Hanson, April 25, 1862; Stuart, July 23, 1864;
Annie Graham, August 12, 1866; Abraham, 2d, September 30,

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1868; Katherine Hanson, April 20, 1871; Bettie Burke, Novem¬
ber 7, 1875; James Otey, March 9, 1876; Julia, October 1, 1878,
died May 17, 1879; Agnes, born and died October 1, 1878; Robert
Graham, April 3, 1881. Residence, Bufordville (Montvale), Vir¬
ginia.

James Hervey Buford was deputy sheriff in his youth, and
for many years after was “resident engineer” of Norfolk &
Western Railway, a partner in the Iron Works at Cripple Creek,
Wythe County, Virginia. He was a man of many parts, and he
played each part in its fitting costume; was a manly man, a true
representative of that chivalrous and grand old gallant Spartan
stock that is ebbing away. Steadfast, constant, loyal, resolute,
honest and fair, with an utter disdain and contempt for ostenta¬
tious display, clinging tenaciously with unusual zeal to his ideal¬
ism, he is to be praised more for the things he did not do than
for the things he did. He lived to a ripe old age of ninety-three,
and every day of his long and useful career was a happy one for
him. He loved little children, whom he invariably greeted with
a pleasant smile of encouragement. He loved birds, the wild
flowers, the pure fresh turquoise air of his native, sun-kissed
hills, the pastoral scenes and symmetrical roll of the magnificent
Blue Ridge, beneath whose shadows he came into and departed
from this earth. He was always conspicious, because he was a
big man with big ideas. Stalwart and strong, both physically
and mentally, and of fine proportions, of even temperament, un¬
impeachable character, and temperate in all things. He was the
very essence and emblem of the scenes which adorn his life,
typical of the traditonal gentleman of the mountains, whose
subtle and seductive influences come from association, and they
carry over their shoulders with quiet dignity, with a repose that
none can understand, save those who worship at her shrine. It
is a pleasure to associate with such men; they inspire us to better
things. He died August 30, 1914.

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9. PASCHAL, 2d, son of James Hervey and Lucy E. Han¬
son Buford, was born at Wytheville, Virginia, and married, in
1894, Ella Mize, of Bryan, Texas. Children — Julia Catherine,
born November 18, 1895 ; Paschal Mize, March 18, 1898, in Mar¬
shal, Texas.

10. JULIA C., daughter of Paschal and Ella Mize Buford,
married, 1913, Oscar Hudnall, of Austin, Texas.

9. WILLIAM HANSON, son of James Hervey and Lucy
Hanson Buford, married Willie Lawrence Wilson, June 1, 1896,
daughter of John and Sallie Wilson, of Bedford County, Virginia.
Children — William Hanson, Jr., born April 17, 1897, and died
June 7, 1898; James Lawrence, September 2, 1898; Katherine
Burr, January 3, 1902; Lucy Hanson, May 18, 1904; Sallie Wil¬
son, June 18, 1906. William Hanson Buford, Sr., lives at Mont-
vale (Bufordville) , Virginia, and owns the old historic Buford
home there, granted by King George III. of England, to his great
grandfather, Henry Buford, and his wife, Mildred Blackburn
Buford, before the Revolutionary War.

9. STUART, son of James Hervey and Lucy E. Hanson
Buford, married Frances Otey Buford, November 25, 1919, who
was a cousin and daughter of Isaac Henry Buford, of Pulaski
County, Virginia. They have no children. Home, Bedford City,
Virginia.

9. ANNIE GRAHAM, daughter of James Hervey and Lucy
Hanson Buford, married Henley Gruber Henderson, Jr., at Mont-
vale, Virginia, June 17, 1896, who was a son of Judge Henry Gru¬
ber and Elizabeth Alexander Henderson, of Seguin, Texas.
Children — Lucy Buford, born November 24, 1898, at Seguin,
Texas, and Annie Isabelle, July 11, 1900, at Montvale, Virginia.
Home at Hondo, Texas.

10. LUCY BUFORD HENDERSON, married H. D. Kil¬
mer, of Baltimore, Maryland, July 20, 1923.

9. ABRAHAM, son of James H. and Lucy E. H. Buford,
married Lucy Montague, of Leonard, Missouri, March 23, 1908.

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Children — Julia Katherine, born March 15, 1909, in Knox County,
Missouri; James Blackburn, June 8, 1911, in Knox County, Mis¬
souri, and Isabelle, February 20, 1913, in Shelby County, Mis¬
souri.

9. KATHERINE HANSON, daughter of James H. and
Lucy E. H. Buford, married Harry M. Peeples, October 29, 1895.
Home, San Marcos, Texas.

9. BETTIE BURKS, daughter of James H. and Lucy E. H.
Buford, is not married and has a government position in Wash¬
ington, D. C.

9. JAMES OTEY, son of James H. and Lucy E. H. Buford,
married Bonnibel Stowers, of Fort Worth, Texas, January 22,
1913. Daughter — Susie Stowers, born June 8, 1914. James
Otey Buford died August 2, 1919, in the Sanitarium at Battle
Creek, Michigan. His widow lives in Houston, Texas.

9. ROBERT GRAHAM, son of James and Lucy E. H. Bu¬
ford, married Mabel Hillyer Stokes, June 30, 1914, at San An¬
tonio, Texas. Robert Graham Buford is secretary and general
manager of Universal Printing Company, Dallas, Texas.

8. MILDRED ELIZABETH, daughter of Paschal and
Frances Otey Buford, married Hon. Edward Calchill Burks,
October 15, 1845, who was born May 20, 1821. Children —
Frances Claiborne, Edward Calchill, Jr., Martin Parks, Paschal
Buford, Elizabeth Blackburn, Margaret and Rowland. Edward
C. Burks was a graduate of Washington College, now Washing¬
ton and Lee University, with the highest honors of his class in
1841, and in 1842 graduated with distinction in the Law Depart¬
ment of the University of Virginia, and at 'once began the practice
of law in his native town, Bedford City, then known as Liberty.
He was in the Legislature of Virginia during the sessions of
1861-62-63. In 1876 he was elected by the General Assembly to
a branch of the Supreme Court, and in 1884 was chosen by the
Legislature as one of the revisers of the Code of 1884. In 1891
he was president of the Virginia Bar Association. In 1895 he

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became editor of the Virginia Law Journal. Able, learned, up¬
right, incorruptible, and a bright jewel in Virginia’s crown of
great men. He died in Bedford City, Bedford County, Virginia,
July 4, 1897.

9. FRANCES CLAIBORNE, daughter of Edward C. and
Mildred E. B. Burks, married, April 14, 1869, John S. Kasey.

Children — Kate Singleton, Margaret Burks, Bettie Buford and
Louise Claiborne.

10. KATE SINGLETON, daughter of John S. and Frances
B. Kasey, married, December 31, 1890, John S. Burks. Children
— Buford Singleton and John Sale.

10. MARGARET BURKS, daughter of John S. and Frances
B. Kasey, married, November 25, 1896, James Eliott Walmsley.
Children — Margaret and Frances.

11. MARGARET, daughter of James E. and Margaret B.
K. Walmsley, married, September, 1919, Joseph Louis Bellus.
Daughter — Margaret Walmsley Bellus.

10. BETTIE BUFORD, daughter of John S. and Frances
Burks Kasey, married, January 14, 1909, George W. Schenk.
Children — Mary Buford, George Winston, Bessie Singleton and
John Beryl.

Bettie Buford Schenk died May 7, 1917.

10. LOUISE CLAIBORNE, daughter of John S. and
Frances Burks Kasey, married William Vincent Jordan, Febru¬
ary 24, 1911 (see below). Children — Frances Elizabeth and
Louise Claiborne, Jr.

Louise Claiborne Jordan, Sr., died December 17, 1914.

9. EDWARD CALOHILL, JR., son of Edward C. and
Mildred E. B. Burks, married, March 5, 1875, Josephine Porter¬
field Bell. Children — Orville, Gladding, who died July 21, 1887,
and Edward Calohill, 3rd.

10. EDWARD CALOHILL, 3rd, son of Edward Calohill,
Jr., and Josephine P. Bell Burks, married, October 25, 1904, Vir-

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ginia McClaren Mosby. Children — Josephine Bell, Virginia
Mosby, Elizabeth Gladding and Nancy Stuart.

9. MARTIN PARKS, son of Edward C. and Mildred E. B.
Burks, married, December 31, 1874, Roberta Gamble Bell. Child¬
ren — Elizabeth Gladding, who died in 1890, and Martin Parks,
Jr.

Martin Parks Burks, at the age of fifteen, entered Wash¬
ington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, and, after
completing the academic course at that institution to the Univer¬
sity of Virginia, he graduated in law, having taken the two
years’ course in one year.

He then began the practice of law in Bedford City, at that
time known as Liberty. In 1899, he accepted a position as law
professor at Washington and Lee University, and, in 1903, was
made Dean of Washington and Lee’s Law School. During 1914-
17, he was one of three lawyers appointed by the governor and
recommended by Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals, as a com¬
mission to revise the Code of Virginia. In 1917 he was elected
one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
and, in 1924, is still on the bench. Bedford County is justly proud
to claim him as her son.

10. MARTIN PARKS, JR., son of Martin P. and Roberta
G. B. Parks, married, February 4, 1909, Laura Mangum Ogesby.
Children — Martin Parks, 3rd, Albert Ogesby, Laura Mangum and
Edward Calohill, 4th.

9. PASCHAL BUFORD, son of Edward C. and Mildred
E. B. Burks, died unmarried.

9. ELIZABETH BLACKBURN, daughter of Edward C.
and Mildred E. B. Burks, married Alexander Spottwood Payne,
June 15, 1887. Child — Nora Burks.

10. NORA BURKS, daughter of Alexandar S. and Eliza¬
beth B. Payne, married William Ragland Hill in 1920. Child —
Russell Spottwood.

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9. MARGARET, daughter of Edward C. and Mildred E.
B. Burks, died unmarried.

9. ROWLAND, son of Edward C. and Mildred E. B. Burks,
married Eliza F. Lloyd. Child — Eliza Fontaine, died unmarried.

8. JOHN Q. A., son of Paschal and Frances Otey Buford,
married, February 12, 1857, Jane Smith Terry, at Oakwood,
Virginia. Children — Harry, born February 24, 1858, died June
29, 1897; Mary Terry, June 17, 1859; Julius Blackburn, March
1, 1861 ; Frances Otey, April 10, 1867. Harry died unmarried.

John Q. A. Buford was a contractor in the construction of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad, closely connected with Vir¬
ginia Public Works, and was a captain in the army of the Con¬
federate States, marrying the daughter of William Terry. He
died June 8, 1874. Jane S. Terry Buford, his wife, was born
July 8, 1830, died January 16, 1876.

9. MARY TERRY, daughter of John Q. A. and Jane Smith
Terry Buford, married, December 4, 1879, Henry Vincent Jordan.
Children — John Buford, born September 28, 1880; Lucy, Feb¬
ruary 22, 1882, died August 7, 1882; George Cauthorn, May 11,
1883, died December 5, 1916; William Vincent, July 29, 1885;
Florrie Terry, August 10, 1887 ; Harry Blackburn, July 14, 1889 ;
Francis Otey, February 8, 1892, died December 2, 1921; Etta
Lucretia, December 21, 1893, died January 7, 1895; Belle Bu¬
ford, December 5, 1896; Alexander, February 5, 1899.

Mary Terry Buford died September 7, 1918.

10. JOHN BUFORD, son of Henry V. and Mary Terry

Buford Jordan, married, December 18, 1907, Pattie S - .

One child — Pattie Matthews.

10. WILLIAM VINCENT, son of Henry V. and Mary
Terry Buford Jordan, married, February 24, 1911, Louise Kasey
(see above). Children — Frances Elizabeth and Louis Claiborne.

10. FLORRIE TERRY, daughter of Henry V. and Mary
Terry Buford Jordan, married, June 5, 1912, Andrew Johnston
Casper. Daughter — Florrie Jordan.

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10. HARRY BLACKBURN, son of Henry V. and Mary
Terry Buford Jordan, married Nellie Fitzpatrick, January 4,
1921.

10. BELLE BUFORD, daughter of Henry V. and Mary
Terry Buford Jordan, married Maxwell Terry. Children —
Andrew and Mary Louise.

9. JULIUS BLACKBURN, son of John Q. A. and Jane
Terry Buford, married, first, December 5, 1884, Lula Blamire.
Son — Harry Blackburn, born September 28, 1887. Lula B. Bu¬
ford died August 26, 1890, and Julius Blackburn Buford married
Lula Hubbard, January 13, 1894.

10. HARRY BLACKBURN, son of Juluis Blackburn and
Lula Blamire Buford, married, June 10, 1912, Grace Harris. Son
— Harry Blackburn, Jr., born April 19, 1913.

Harry Blackburn Buford, Sr., died March 25, 1918.

9. FRANCES OTEY, daughter of John Q. A. and Jane
Terry Buford, married, June 19, 1895, Thomas Tucker Oliver.
Children — Mary Buford, born April 1, 1896; John Buford, May
23, 1905. Home, Bedford City, Virginia.

8. ROWLAND DABNEY, son of Paschal and Frances
Otey Buford, married, March 4, 1856, Josephine Victoria Wilson.
Daughter — Nancy Lightfoot, born May 13, 1857, died June 13th
of the same year. Josephine V. Wilson Buford died April 8,
1858, and Rowland D. Buford married, second, December 5, 1866,
Sarah Augusta, daughter of Alfred A. Bell. Daughter — Isabelle,
who is teaching school in Bedford County, Virginia, and is un¬
married.

Rowland Dabney Buford was one of the oldest and probably
the best known man in Bedford County, Virginia. His death
was the result of infirmities incident to old age. He was in his
ninety-fourth year at the time of death. He was a member of
one of Bedford’s most prominent and influential families, being
a son of the late Paschal Buford and a grandson of Captain Henry
Buford, who settled in Bedford County, Virginia, 1768, his home

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being at Montvale (Bufordville) , where he had a grant from
King George of England. Rowland Dabney’s boyhood days were
spent on the farm, but he was given the best education the fa¬
cilities of those days afforded, and when fourteen years of age
he came to the County Court clerk’s office to be a deputy. clerk
for Robert C. Mitchell, and later he went to Lexington, where
he served in the same capacity in the clerk’s office of Rockbridge
County. He returned to Bedford County about ten years before
the Civil War, and, in 1855, upon the death of Circuit Clerk
Joseph Wilson, he was appointed by the court to fill the unex¬
pired term, and in the succeeding elections held the position con¬
tinuously for twenty-seven years, with the exception of a few
months immediately following the Civil War, when the county
was under military government and he was unable to take the
oath of office, though during this short period he was appointed
deputy and discharged the duties of the office. He was also
clerk of the County Court for six years. The county never had
a more thorough, efficient and painstaking official. Upon his
first arrival in Bedford City, he was requested to take charge
of the duties of superintendent of the Sunday School of the
Episcopal church, of which he had been a member for years..
This position he filled for many years, and was for a still longer
period vestryman, and for a great part of the time secretary
of the vestry. He was also appointed by the bishop a lay reader
for the church, and was a faithful and constant supporter in
every respect of his church. To the trustees of St. John’s Episco¬
pal Church he donated the land for Longwood Cemetery. He
was a conservative churchman, a large-hearted and progressive
citizen and consistent Christian gentleman.

Mr. Buford took a pardonable pride in the manner in which
the county office was conducted under his administration. He

loved the work ; it appealed to his nature and training, and
probably Bedford will never know another man who made such

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a close study of the county’s affaiis or one so familiar with its
early history and traditions.

During the latter years of his life Mr. Buford spent a great
deal of his time going over and studying the county’s history as
recorded in the clerk’s office, and his mind was a veritable store¬
house of knowledge of men and events of generations dead and
gone. Possessing a remarkably retentive memory for dates and
details, not only of the time in which he lived, but of the earlier
days of which he studied, he was rarely appealed to in vain for
information concerning any event in the county’s history, and
many have oftentimes been indebted to him for particulars of men
and happenings of years ago, information which could not have
been obtained from any other source. Mr. Buford’s interest in
life was not centered alone in the history of his county or in
the chief feature of his life as clerk, but was manifested in every
activity of the community, and this interest was retained up to
the day of his death.

Mr. Buford was a consecrated Christian gentleman every
day of the week, whose walk and conversation before his fellow-
men for nearly a century was an inspiration and an appeal to
the better natures of those with whom he was thrown in contact.
His life was clean, wholesome and above reproach, and in respect
to age, the family is one of the most remarkable in America.
Julius Blackburn Buford, Margaret L. Cobbs, James Hervey and
Isaac Henry Buford, his brothers and sister, all members of the
same family, lived to be very old, the first three dieing respec¬
tively at the ages of eighty-seven, eighty-four and ninety-four,
and he himself at ninety-four, and Isaac Henry still survives at
eighty-five years of age.

Despite his advanced age, Mr. Buford retained health and
strength to a remarkable degree, until within a few days of his
death, being on the street and at his office every day, and taking
the same interest in life and public affairs that had always been
one of his chief characteristics.

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Rowland Dabney Buford died February 3, 1921.

BELL

James Bell married - . Son — Thomas, married Ann

Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Wolande. Alfred A., son of
Thomas and Ann Mary Bell, married Mary Isabel Lowry. Daughter
— Sarah Augusta, who married Rowland Dabney Buford. Mary Isabel
was the daughter of William, Jr., and Nancy Hoard Lowry. William,

Jr., was the son of William, Sr., and Mary Pullen Lowry. Nancy
Hoard was the daughter of William and Mary Thorpe Hoard. Mary
Thorpe was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Triplett Thorpe.

8. JULIUS BLACKBURN, son of Paschal and Frances
Otey Buford, married, April 11, 1871, Letitia Terry Campbell.
No children.

Julius B. Buford was among the first to respond to the call
to arms at the beginning of the Civil War, April, 1861, and was
one of the volunteer company of Capt. William R. Terry, the
“Clay Dragoons/’ Company A., Second Virginia Regiment of
Cavalry, First Brigade, under General Fitzhugh Lee, of General
J. E. B. Stuart’s Division.

This was the first cavalry company that left Bedford. He
was in active service the first two years; was in the first and
second battles of Manassas, the fight around Richmond, and
other severe engagements, and was severely stunned by a burst¬
ing shell, from the effects of which he became partially deaf
through life. For the last two years of the war he was appointed
quartermaster, his jurisdiction extending over Patrick County,
Virginia, and several counties in North Carolina.

General Thomas Munford, in a letter to Julius B. Buford,
refers to the passport of the latter, lent to General Munford to
be used in a book written by him as “an endorsation of myself,
which was appoved by General Fitzhugh Lee, and General Stuart,
General R. E. Lee and Secretary of War, showing that had he
managed the ‘Camp Kripple’ of the Second Virginia Regiment
so creditably to yourself and those under you, that it was allowed
to be continued during the rest of the war, while all camps of

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the other regiments were broken up and we men ordered to camp
duty.” That his service “could not be estimated by money, and
was most creditable to you, as a dutiful patriotic soldier, ever
ready to do what was best for the service.”

His Cross of Honor was bestowed by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy and worn by him at the dedication of the
Confederate Monument in Bedford City. A treasured pistol he
captured from a Yankee officer at the first battle of Manassas,
together with his sword, which he prized highly, is now the prop¬
erty of his nephew and namesake, Julius Gordon Buford, of Pul¬
aski County, Virginia. At the close of the Civil War he pur¬
chased from his father a part of the Holsten estate and settled
at Bufordville, Virginia, now Montvale.

Mr. Buford was a man of broad mind and generous impulses
and never departed from the hospitable ways peculiar to Vir¬
ginians of past generations, keeping open house for his friends,
and they were at all times welcome. During his long life he had
filled the relation of son, husband and friend, and filled them
well, and when his work was finished he quietly crossed the
border line, carrying with him the love and esteem of a host of
friends and relatives. He was a man of fine moral character
and sturdy constitution, and he continued his activities and his
accustomed pursuits of life until long past the age at which men
ordinarily drop out of the rank. He was a practical, matter-of-
fact man, but had his own peculiar way of extracting merriment
fiom life, and was not disposed to worry about matters which
could not be helped. This cheerfulness remained with him to the
last, and he retained his clearness of intellect up to his closing
days.

Julius Blackburn Buford died August 21, 1919. His wife
had died many years before.

8. ANN JANE, daughter of Paschal and Frances Otey Bu¬
ford, married William Hampton Hall, November 16, 1858, who
was born November 26, 1826. Children — Frank Otey, born Sep-

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tember 14, 1859 ; Nannie Rockafellow, July 25, 1861 ; Paschal Bu¬
ford (daughter) , January 30, 1863 ; William Hampton, Jr., March
30, 1864, died May 3, 1866; Abraham Buford, November 20,
1865, died September 15, 1883; John Dayton, November 4, 1867,
died November 23, 1890; Baby, September 20, 1871, died same
day.

William H. Hall died February 4, 1882. His wife, Ann Jane
Buford Hall, died August 7, 1908.

9. FRANK OTEY, daughter of William Hampton and Ann
Jane Buford Hall married Dabney Hill Scoville, December 20,
1893, who was born July 14, 1860. Frank Otey Scoville died Jan¬
uary 3, 1903.

9. NANNIE R., daughter of William H. and Ann Jane
Buford Hall, married Robert Graham Hanson, March 10, 1886,
who was born July 14, 1851. Children — Robert Graham, Jr.,
born February 1, 1887 ; Agnes Graham, October 27, 1895 ; Hamp¬
ton Hall, December 30, 1896; Jennie Buford, January 16, 1898.

10. ROBERT G., son of Robert, Sr., and Nannie R. Hanson,
married Minnie Thomas, June 12, 1913. She was a Van Epps
and born January 19, 1886. Children — Isabel Thomas, born
March 20, 1914; Howard Van Epps, July 10, 1921.

10. AGNES G., daughter of Robert Sr., and Nannie R.
Hanson, married Harry Wilson Bachman, June 15, 1918. Child¬
ren — Agnes Graham, Jr., born May 1, 1920; Joseph Sidney, Feb¬
ruary 23, 1922.

8. MARGARET L., daughter of Paschal and Frances Otey
Buford, married Capt. Thomas N. Cobbs, December 27, 1883,
who died in 1895, and she died February 24, 1920. She lived at
“Locust Level,” the old homestead, and was buried in the old
Buford Cemetery. They had no children.

8. ISAAC HENRY, son of Paschal and Frances Otey Bu¬
ford, married Sarah McGovock August 31, 1859, who was a
daughter of David Fenton and Elizabeth (nee Cloyd) Kent. She
was born in Pulaski County, Virginia, November 5, 1839, died

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March 9, 1891. Children — Elizabeth Cloyd, born January 4, 1862;
James Randal Kent, December 1, 1863, died October 24, 1868;
Julius Gordon, July 27, 1865; David Fenton, April 25, 1867, died
November 22, 1885 ; Frances Otey, October 23, 1868 ; John, March
12, 1871; Lucy Kent, January 11, 1873; Paschal Kent, June 6,
1874; Sarah Ellen, October 18, 1875; Stanley Gibbs, February 8,
1878. Of the above, Julius Gordon, Paschal Kent and Stanley
Buford are unmarried.

Isaac Henry Buford settled in Pulaski County, Virginia,
where all his children were born, and this branch of the family
has always been known as the Pulaski Bufords. The place of
his birth, however, was at “Locust Level,” Bufordville, now
Montvale, Bedford County, Virginia, the historical home of his
grandfather, Henry Buford. The latter, his father, Paschal Bu¬
ford, as well as many of the children, were buried there in the
quaint old cemetery, in which there was a memorial, a part of
the Top Rock of the Peaks of Otter, which was dislodged from
its base many years ago by means of levers, and hurled to the
bottom of the mountain. About the year 1852 this rock was
broken into four parts, three of which were brought to “Liberty,”
now Eedford City. One quarter was sent to Washington as a
contribution by Virginia to the Washington Monument, then
being constructed in that city; a second, to Richmond, which is
a part of the pedestal of the Washington Monument in Capital
Square; a third remains in the yard of the court house in Bed¬
ford City, and the fourth part was taken to “Locust Level” by
Captain Paschal Buford and placed under the trees where,
according to old customs, it served for many years as a wash-
stand, having been dressed and chiseled into two bowls for that
purpose, bearing in large letters the inscription, “Peaks of Ot¬
ter.” Later it was removed to the cemetery and serves as a
receptacle for flowers. Isaac H. Buford was one of those who
supervised the moving of these rocks, the men and teams being

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furnished by his father, Paschal Buford. Home, Dublin, Pulaski
County, Virginia.

9. ELIZABETH CLOYD, daughter of Isaac Henry and
Sarah M. Kent Buford, married, January 13, 1886, William
Kirby Miller. He was the son of John Kirby Miller and Elizabeth
Larew, nee Glendy, born in Pulaski County, Virginia, September
29, 1861, died November 30, 1921. Children — Daisy, born No¬
vember 4, 1886; James Fenton, December 4, 1887; Sallie Kent,
December 15, 1888; Lizzie Otey and John (twins), February 20,
1890, the latter died December 30, 1890; Lucy, July 7, 1891, died
February 19, 1892; unnamed girl, July 7, 1892, died the same
day; Margaret, May 27, 1893; Mary Lee, October 27, 1894; Wil¬
liam Kirby and Nellie McGavock (twins), November 5, 1895;
unnamed son, January 7, 1897, died same day; Buford Black¬
burn, August 9, 1898 ; Lettie Campbell, December 23, 1899 ; Cloyd,
January 26, 1902, died February 19, 1902; unnamed son, March
18, 1903, died October 1, 1903; infant son, September 20, 1905.

10. LIZZIE O., daughter of William Kirby and Elizabeth
Cloyd Miller, married, January 14, 1922, James M. Brown.
Daughter- — Elizabeth Cloyd, February 24, 1923.

9. FRANCES OTEY, daughter of Isaac Henry and Sarah
M. Kent Buford, married, November 25, 1919, Stuart Buford, son
of James Hervey and Lucy E. Hanson Buford (see above). No
children. She is a true worker for D. A. R. Her national number
is 48,228.

9. LUCY KENT, daughter of Isaac Henry and Sarah M.
Kent Buford, married, June 9, 1903, Joseph Draper, born in
Pulaski County, Virginia, February 6, 1879, who was the son of
John and Jane (nee Hairston) Draper. Children — Kent Hairston,
born November 24, 1904; Elizabeth Buford, October 1, 1908.
Lucy Kent Buford Draper died February 8, 1920.

9. SARAH E., daughter of Isaac Henry and Sarah M.
Kent Buford, married William McKelvey Montague, October 5,
1898, a son of Jerry Kyle married Mary G. (nee Smith),

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born in Montgomery County, Virginia, September 4, 1874. Child¬
ren — Beverly Kyle, born June 21, 1899, died July 11, 1905; un¬
named son, October 3, 1900, died October 4, 1900; William Mc-
Kelvey, April 23, 1903 ; Trigg Mosby, July 15, 1905 ; Isaac Buford,
August 11, 1908, and John Campbell, August 14, 1910.

9. JOHN, son of Isaac Henry and Sarah M. Kent Buford,
married Mary Lewis Whaling, July 27, 1898. She was born in
Pulaski County, Virginia, May 31, 1877, and was a daughter of
John T. and Mary (nee Ingraham Whaling). Children — Mary
Elizabeth, born September 7, 1899; Janie Kent, December 8,
1902, died July 14, 1903; Helen, March 16, 1904; Julia Pitzer,
December 31, 1905, died September 26, 1906; John Whaling,
February 6, 1907; Cynthia, October 9, 1909; Sarah McGavock,
September 3, 1910; Julius Gordon, November 20, 1913; Louise
Kent, December 20, 1916.

10. MARY E., daughter of John and Mary Lewis Whaling
Buford, married Lucian Lee Hale, March 20, 1920, who was born
December 4, 1898. Daughter — Elizabeth Lee, born April 8, 1921.

7. JULIA ANN, daughter of Henry and Mildred Black¬
burn Buford, married David Kyle, August 25, 1811, of Botetourt
County, Virginia. Had no children.

7. MARY MALINDA, daughter of Henry and Mildred
Blackburn Buford, married Jacob Kent, September 7, 1814, who
was born April 22, 1790, the son of Colonel Joseph Kent, of
Wythe County, Virginia. Mary Malinda Buford Kent died De¬
cember 20, 1850. Jacob Kent died April 24, 1858. Children —
Margaret Louise, born April 6, 1817; Sarah Jane, April 9, 1819;
Joseph Henry, September 12, 1821; James McGavock, April 18,
1825; Ann Eliza, December 22, 1828, never married; Virginia
Preston, August 13, 1833; Mary Lucy, February 2, 1838.

Jacob Kent and his wife settled immediately after their mar¬
riage on a farm in Montgomery County, Virginia, where they
lived until their death.

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8. MARGARET LOUISE, daughter of Jacob and Mary
Malinda Buford Kent, married John Archer Langhorne, of Lynch¬
burg, Virginia, May 7, 1839. Children — James Henry, born
August 31, 1841; Elizabeth Allen, December 20, 1812; Jacob
Kent, March 1, 1846; Maurice Daniel, August 16, 1847 ; John Wil¬
liam, June 16, 1850; Maggie Kent, August 16, 1853, and Mary
Buford, April 22, 1856.

9. JAMES H., son of John A. and Margaret L. Kent Lang¬
horne, entered the Confederate States Army in 1861, as a lieu¬
tenant of a company from Montgomery County, made an adjutant
of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, and was wounded and taken
prisoner at the battle of Kerrotown, Virginia, in March, 1865.

9. ELIZABETH ALLEN, daughter of John A. and Mar¬
garet L. K. Langhorne, married John M. Payne, December 5,

1863. Children — Archie Langhorne, born September 24, 1864;
Robert Spotswood, May, 1866; Frances Russel (dead) ; John
Meene, 1869; Andrew Russel (dead) ; Margaret Kent, January
12, 1872; Daniel Langhorne, January, 1875; Mary Eliza, October
24, 1877.

10. MARGARET K., daughter of John A. and Margaret
Kent Langhorne, married Norborne Pescud Gatling, at Amherst,
Virginia, June, 1898. Child — Norborne Pescud, Jr., born Octo¬
ber, 1901.

9. JACOB KENT, son of John A. and Margaret L. Kent
Langhorne, a lieutenant in the Second Virginia Cavalry, Confed¬
erate States Army, was killed at the battle of Brandy Station,

1864.

9. MAURICE DANIEL, son of John A. and Margaret L.
K. Langhorne, married, October 17, 1877, Margaret A. Kent.
Children — David Gray, born August 6, 1878, in Pulaski County,
Virginia; Maurice Daniel, Jr., February 15, 1880; Bessie, born
and died in 1880.

Maurice Daniel Langhorne died September 26, 1900.

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10. DAVID GRAY, son of Maurice Daniel and Margaret
A. Kent Langhorne, married Emily Addison, of Richmond, Vir¬
ginia. Children — Emily Addison, Jr., D. Gray, Jr., and Edmond
Addison.

10. MAURICE DANIEL, JR., son of Maurice Daniel, Sr.,
and Margaret Kent Langhorne, married Mary Kempel. Daughter
— Emily Cooper. They have two sons dead.

9. JOHN WILLIAM, son of John A. and Margaret L. K.
Langhorne, married, November 6, 1874, Alice Jane Vickery, of
Norfolk, Virginia. Children — Jacob Vickery, born December 3,
1876, at Norfolk, Virginia; John Archer, July 26, 1878; Daniel
Allen, November 30, 1879, at Norfolk; Maurice Daniel 3rd, Jan¬
uary 12, 1882, died April 4, 1912; James Kent, August 10, 1883,
died August 14, 1883; Thomas Hardy, June 23, 1886, died June
8, 1898; Alice Jane, July 31, 1888, at Baltimore, Maryland; David
Cloyd, March 14, 1892, at Norfolk, Virginia; Nina Henrietta,
April 26, 1894, at Portsmouth, Virginia ; Margaret Ann, Novem¬
ber 11, 1900.

John William Langhorne died September 11, 1909, at Nor¬
folk, Virginia.

10. JOHN ARCHER, 2d, son of John William and Alice
Jane Vickery Langhorne, married Nettie Kempt, of Trappe,
Maryland, June 23, 1909. Children — Ethel Eceleston, born March
16, 1910, at Tuxedo, Virginia; John Archer, Jr., March 14, 1914,
at Portsmouth, Virginia; Robert Kempt, July 17, 1917, at Berk¬
ley, Virginia.

10. ALICE JANE, daughter of John William and Alice J.
Vickery Langhorne, married, December 1, 1906, Riley Riggs
Bayto, of Norfolk, Virginia. Children — Genevieve Alice, born
November 8, 1907 ; Dorothy Langhorne, October 20, 1911, at Pet¬
ersburg, Virginia.

9. MAGGIE KENT, daughter of John A. and Margaret
L. K. Langhorne, married, October 12, 1870, William M. Ellis.
Children — Nannie Kent, born November 13, 1871; Elvira Mun-

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ford, June 10, 1873; Margaret Langhorne, September 26, 1875;
William Munford, June 27, 1879.

Maggie Kent Langhorne died May 12, 1882.

10. ELVIRA MUNFORD, daughter of William M. and
Maggie Kent Ellis, married, June 3, 1908, Adolph Sylvester
Rachal, at “Madison,” Shawsville, Virginia. Children — William
Munford Ellis, born June 20, 1910; Adolph Sylvester, Jr., Sep¬
tember 5, 1911.

10. MARGARET LANGHORNE, daughter of William M.
and Maggie Kent Ellis, married, September 27, 1911, Charles
Henry Topping, at “Madison,” Shawsville, Virginia. Children
— John Langhorne, born September 19, 1913 ; Munford Ellis,
February 6, 1915.

9. MARY BUFORD, daughter of John A. and Margaret
L. K. Langhorne, married, December 7, 1880, at Shawsville, Vir¬
ginia, David McNutt Cloyd, born in Pulaski County, Virginia,
January 15, 1855. He was a son of James McGavock and
Frances McNutt Cloyd. He died at Back Creek, Pulaski County,
Virginia, June 19, 1911. Children — Kent Ellis, born October 14,
1881; David McNutt, Jr., September 2, 1883; Mary Langhorne,
March 3, 1885; John Archer, July 12, 1887; James McGavock,
October 21, 1889, died in 1890; Maurice Daniel and Joseph Gor¬
don (twins), April 17, 1892; Maurice D., died July 31, 1892, and
Joseph G., October 3, 1893; Allen Earnest, August 15, 1894;
Francis McNutt, January 6, 1896.

10. KENT ELLIS, daughter of David M. and Mary Bu¬
ford Langhorne, married Roger Martin, June 29, 1904. Children
— Cloyd, born March 26, 1905 ; Margaret Tomlin, April 2, 1908 ;
Mary Langhorne, June 23, 1909; Kent Cloyd, October 7, 1911;
Rogers Martin, Jr., January 21, 1916; Maurice Langhorne, Feb¬
ruary 12, 1920.

10. DAVID McNUTT, JR., son of David McNutt and
Mary Buford L. Cloyd, married Elizabeth Guthrie, August 7,
1907. Children — Lelia Langhorne, born May 24, 1911; David

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McNutt, 3rd, February 2, 1914; James Guthrie, March 6, 1916.

10. MARY LANGHORNE, daughter of David M. and
Marty Buford L. Cloyd, married Robert Gerry Stevens, June 15,
1916. Children — Robert Gerry, Jr., born June 12, 1917 ; Frances
Hanson, June 19, 1919; David Cloyd, April 30, 1922.

10. JOHN ARCHER, son of David M. and Mary Buford
L. Cloyd, married Edna Cavanaugh, August 17, 1921.

10. ALLEN ERNEST, son of David M. and Mary B. L.
Cloyd. married Louise Turner, June 20, 1920.

8. SARAH JANE, daughter of Jacob and Mary Buford
Kent, married George W. Anderson, May 7, 1840. Children —
William Gordon, born March 22, 1841; Jacob Kent, February 20,
1843, died February 20, 1861; Mary Belle, December 28, 1844;
Jennie Buford, May 31, 1847, died July 21, 1853; Caroline Doug¬
las, May 31, 1851; Joseph Henry, January 12, 1853; Nannie
Christian, April 10, 1856; Elizabeth Douglas, May 21, 1858, died
August 10, 1860.

9. MARY BELLE, daughter of George W. and Sarah J.
Anderson, married Major John Blair Harvie, April 5, 1865, who
was of Amelia County, Virginia. Children — Charles Irving, born
January 3, 1866, died June 7, 1866; George Anderson, May 31,
1867, died January 7, 1897; Sarah Blair, July 26, 1870; Lewis
Edwin, January 20, 1872; John Skelton, December 16, 1873;
Julian Binford, February 23, 1876, died November 23, 1899;
James Blair, June 29, 1878, died September 26, 1896; Willie
Gordon (daughter), April 14, 1881; Walter Blair, October 16,
1883; Lewellyn Kent, March 27, 1886; Mary Douglas Anderson,
April 29, 1887.

10. SARAH B., daughter of John Blair and Mary Belle
Anderson Harvie, married Carter W. Wormeley, of Richmond,
Virginia. Son — Ralph, born May 16, 1904.

10. LEWIS E., son of John Blair and Marry Belle Ander¬
son Harvie, married Fannie Brown Kent, of Max Meadows, Vir¬
ginia. Children — Francis Kent, born April 15, 1912; Lewis Ed-

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win, Jr., January 9, 1914, died June 2, 1918; Mary Anderson,
June 14, 1922.

10. JOHN S., son of John Blair and Mary Belle Anderson
Harvie, married Elizabeth W. Carrington, of Roanoke, Virginia.
Children — Lewis Edwin, born August 1, 1908, and John Skelton,
Jr., August 11, 1911.

10. WILLIE G., daughter of John Blair and Mary Belle An¬
derson Harvie, married David Rice Creecy, of Richmond, Vir¬
ginia. Children — David Rice, Jr., born March 12, 1907 ; John
Harvie, April 28, 1908.

10. WALTER B., son of John Blair and Mary Belle Ander¬
son Harvie, married Sadie S. DeJarnette, of Richmond, Virginia.
Son — Walter Blair, Jr., born June 10, 1917.

10. MARY D., daughter of John Blair and Mary Belle An¬
derson Harvie, married Louis E. Weitzel, of Richmond, Virginia.

9. CAROLINE D., daughter of George W. and Sarah J. An¬
derson, married, May 22, 1875, Eugene Stiles. Child — Eugenia
Douglas, born February 22, 1876. Caroline D. Anderson Stiles
died November 5, 1877.

9. JOSEPH HENRY, son of George W. and Sarah J. An¬
derson, married Pinkie Tebault. One child, died in infancy.

9. NANNIE C., daughter of George W. and Sarah J. An¬
derson, married, December 7, 1880, Alfred L. Mayer. Children — •
Robert Buston, born March 28, 1881 ; William Gordon, October
13, 1884, died February 20, 1885; Jane Calhoun, December 10,
1885, died October 22, 1886; Ambrose Madison, August 27, 1887.

Alfred L. Mayer entered the Confederate States Army in
1861, served to the close of the war, and was major in 1865.

8. JOSEPH HENRY, son of Jacob and Mary Malinda Bu¬
ford Kent, married, May 4, 1844, Elizabeth White.

8. JAMES McGAVOCK, son of Jacob and Mary M. B.
Kent, married, August 15, 1854, Lucy N. Oliver. Children —
Joseph Henry, born in 1855; Katherine Eugenia, 1857; Hugh
Clarence, 1859, died in infancy; James McGavock, Jr., 1861:

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Mary Lucy, 1864; Rosalthe Telverton, 1866, died; Charles
Oliver, 1868; Margaret McGavock, 1870; Lelia Maurice, 1872;
Virginia and Allen, twins, died.

9. JOSEPH HENRY, son of James McGavock and Lucy N.
Oliver Kent, married, first, in 1878, Margaret Taylor. Son —
Joseph D., 1879. Married, second, in 1884, Kate Sanderson.

9. KATHERINE EUGENIA, daughter of James McGavock
and Lucy N. Oliver Kent, married, July 29, 1884, Edmond Didill.
Children — Angelica Peel, born in 1885; Rosalthe Kent, 1887;
Henry Dorsey, 1889 ; Katherine, 1890.

9. MARY LUCY, daughter of James McGavock and Lucy
N. 0. Kent, married, August 11, 1886, John C. Ridley. Children
— John David, born in 1887; James Kent, 1890; Lucy Oliver,
1892; Ronald Buford, 1896.

9. CHARLES OLIVER, son of James McGavock and Lucy
N. 0. Kent, married, in 1889, Virginia Brooks.

9. MARGARET McGAVOCK, daughter of James Mc¬
Gavock and Lucy N. 0. Kent, married, 1890, Willoughby Moss.

8. VIRGINIA PRESTON, daughter of Jacob and Mary
Malinda Buford Kent, married, February 15, 1852, Dr. Daniel
Langhorne. Son — Maurice Kent, born December 20, 1853, died
April 10, 1864, Lynchburg, Virginia.

CHAPTER X.

6. MARY BUFORD AND WILLIAM CHAPMAN

6. MARY, daughter of John and Judith Early Beauford,
of Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, married Cap¬
tain William Chapman. Children — William, Jr., Simeon,
Thomas, Judith, Elizabeth and Anne.

7. WILLIAM, Jr., son of William and Mary Buford
Chapman, married Catherine Gaines. Children — Edmond, Wil¬
liam 3d, Tabitha and Mary Buford, who never married.

8. EDMOND, son of William, Jr., and Catherine G. Chap¬
man, married, first, Martha Bohannon. Children— Edmond, Jr.,
and Martha. Married, second, Ann Henshaw. Children — Wil¬
liam S., Mary C., Sarah Letitia and David F.

9. MARY C. married Hill Brown and left no children.

9. DAVID F. married Gertrude Bain and left no children.

8. WILLIAM 3d, son of William, Jr., and Catherine G.
Chapman, married Elizabeth Farrar. Children — Samuel F.,
William H., Edmond, Kate, John, Anne, Thomas, Elizabeth and
Andrew.

9. SAMUEL F. married in Fairfax County. Colonel
Mosby, in his “War Reminiscences/’ says of Samuel Chapman :
“At the first call of his state to arms, he quit the study of divinity,
and became, like Stonewall Jackson, a sort of military Calvin,
singing the psalms of David as he marched into battle; his
character as a soldier was more on the model of the Hebrew
prophets than of the evangelist or the Baptist, in whom he was so
devout a believer. In the action at Miskel’s farm, as he rode on
his predestined course, the enemy’s ranks withered wherever he
went. He was generally in front of everybody in a fight. To
give more vigor to his blows, he was standing straight up in his
stirrups, dealing them right and left, with all the theological
fervor of Burley of Balfour. I doubt whether he prayed that day
for the souls of those he sent over the Stygian River. I made
him a captain for it.

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“Sam Chapman was the brother of William H. (below), who
afterwards became the lieutenant-colonel of my battalion, and
who had commanded a battery which, under Longstreet’s order,
had shattered Fitz John Porter's corps in its assault on Jackson’s
line at Groveton Heights. Samuel was killed, May 29, 1863, in
the action at Catlett’s Station, Virginia, where he did most ef¬
fective service with a small howitzer. He passed through so
many fights unscathed that the men had a superstition that he
was as invulnerable as the son of Thetis. His hour had come at
last, and a bullet pierced the celestial armor of the soldier-priest,
but he fought with the rammer of his gun as he fell.”

9. WILLIAM H., son of William 3d and Elizabeth F. Chap¬
man, married in Fauquier County, Virginia, Miss Jeffries. Chil¬
dren — John, who married Miss Kaufman, and had children —
Thomas, married Miss McKim, and had children ; Elizabeth, mar¬
ried Mr. Anderson, and had children. There were other children
who never married. The families scattered over Virginia, West
Virginia and Texas.

8. TABITHA, daughter of William, Jr., and Catherine G.
Chapman, married William R. Berry.

7. SIMEON, son of William, Sr., and Mary B. Chapman,
married Ann Bohannon. Children — Francis and Mary.

8. MARY married M. D. Call. Children — Millard F.,
Judith and Boone Clay.

9. MILLARD F. married Frances Twyman, and had chil¬
dren.

9. BOONE CLAY married Adalie Rosser, and had children.

7. THOMAS, son of William, Sr., and Mary B. Chapman,
married Elizabeth Early. Children — James E., William T.,
Thomas W. and Mary A. B.

8. JAMES E. married Mary D. Thompson. Children —
Nathaniel T., Mary E., Lucy A. B., Frances M., Sarah J. and
James A.

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9. NATHANIEL T. married Elizabeth Rhodes. Children
— Thomas R., Willett, Addie, James P., Edmond T., Frances and
Elizabeth.

10. THOMAS R. married Emma Wood. Child — Georgia.

10. WILLETT married A. B. Wells, of Richmond, Va.

Children — John, Ruth, Elizabeth and Alexander.

10. ADDIE married, first, Virgil Brown. Children — •
Ethel Erastus, Virgil and Harriet. Virgil Brown died and Addie
married, second husband, Mr. Jones, of Philadelphia.

10. JAMES P. married Miss Hammer. Child — Marie.

10. EDMOND T. married Elizabeth Beckwith.

10. FRANCES married - Small. Child— Elizabeth,

who married Mr. Proffit and had children.

9. MARY E. married Smith Brown. Child — Lucy M.

9. FRANCES M. married Dr. E. F. Catterton. Child —
Sarah E., who married George Parrott. Children — Frances F.,
Emory R. and Bledsoe B.

9. VIRGINIA M. married Bernard T. Chapman (see
below) .

9. SARAH J. married Thomas A. Chapman (see below) .

8. WILLIAM T., son of Thomas and Elizabeth E. Chap¬
man, married Lucy Thompson. Children — Thomas, Nathaniel,
William S. and Elizabeth.

9. THOMAS married Frances Blakey.

9. NATHANIEL married Frances Sherman. Children —
John S., Thomas and Elizabeth.

10. JOHN S. married Sarah Davis. Child — Nathaniel.

9. WILLIAM S. married Mary Sherman.

8. THOMAS W., son of Thomas and Elizabeth E. Chap¬
man, married, first, Martha J. Willhoit. Children — James C.,
Elizabeth J., Thomas A., Mary A. and Bernard T. Martha W.
died and Thomas married, second, Eliza Eddins.

9. JAMES C. married, first, Kate Bohannon. Children —
Sarah M., Elizabeth V. R., George O., Alice G., Edward E., Min-

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nie G., Rosa, Basil and Mason. Kate B. died and James C. mar¬
ried, second, Stella Fletcher. Children — Elva and Guy.

10. SARAH M. married Smith Blakey. Children — Davis,
Finks and Keesie.

10. ELIZABETH V. R. married Samuel W. Lauck. Chil¬
dren — Myrtle and Audry.

10. MINNIE C. married Ezekiel Brooking. Child — Zeta.

9. THOMAS A. married Sarah J. Chapman, daughter of
James E. and Mary T. (above). Children — Mary Buford,
Charles A. and Elizabeth.

9. BERNARD T. married, first, Virginia M., daughter of
James E. and Mary T. Chapman (above James). Children —
James W., Martha F., William E. and Lila V. Virginia died and
Bernard married, for second wife, Sarah Banks. Children — Ida
Banks and Elsie Willie.

8. MARY A. B., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth E.
Chapman, married B. B. Thompson. Child — Mary E., married
E. B. Brown. Children — Bernard A., married Mary Pollard;
Sarah M., married Gates Garth ; Lutie S., married Joab Durrett.

7. JUDITH, daughter of William and Mary B. Chapman,
married Robert Hill. Children — Robert, William, Anne, Frances
and Mary Buford, who never married.

8. WILLIAM married Miss Tutt. Children — Susan, Nan¬
nie, Frances, Letitia, Robert and Polk. The family went to
Nebraska.

8. ANNE married John Booton. Children — John, Edwin,
Frances, Nannie and Lucy. John and Edwin married sisters, the
Misses Ward. Lucy married Dr. W. A. Graves, had a son Seldon,
who married Miss Edmonds.

9. P'RANCES married Dr. W. A. Hill. Children — John B.,
William P., Anne Lee, Julia H., Irving and Hugh H.

10. JOHN B. married Miss Hudgins, William P. married
Miss Coghill, Anne Lee married Philip Majors.

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8. FRANCES married Edmond Thompson. Children —
Frances and Marietta.

9. FRANCES married Jeremiah Martin. Children — Eliza¬
beth, married William Field; Fenetta, married Mr. Corby, anQ
Edward, died.

9. MARIETTA married John Clofton.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of William and Mary Buford
Chapman, married William Wetherall. Children — William H.,
George, Elizabeth and Mary Buford.

8. WILLIAM H. married Jane Hume. Children — John,
James, Leonard, William H., Jr., Mildred, Ellen, Eliza and Ophe¬
lia, who never married.

9. JOHN married and went to West Virgina; James mar¬
ried Miss Harris and went to Missouri.

9. LEONARD married Mrs. Columbia Payne.

9. WILLIAM H., Jr., married Mary Yowell. Children —
John W., James A., Adaline, Catta, Ella and Elizabeth.

10. JOHN W. married Mary Story. Children — Mary,

Blanch, Nettie and Ludwill.

10. JAMES A. married Emma Orr. Children — Ernest,
Elizabeth, Henry, Herbert and Irma.

10. ADALINE married A. S. Utz. Children— Leonard,
William M., Luna and Fisher.

10. CATTA married William M. Rosser; Ella married
Horace Hall. Children- — Marion, Joseph and Karl.

10. ELIZABETH married William Hall. Children— Mil¬
dred, who married John K. Rosser. Children — H. Leonidas, John
K., Jr., and Martha Rosser.

11. H. Leonidas married Florence Bowler. Children —
Bula and Clyde.

11. JOHN K., Jr., married Frances Cole.

9. ELLEN married George Thomas, had a son William,
who married Miss Comer.

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9. ELIZA married Peyton Thomas. Children — Robert and
Angus.

10. ANGUS married Miss Murphy.

8. GEORGE, son of William and Elizabeth Wetherall,
married Emma Bohannon. Children — Marion, Francis and
others.

9. MARION married Mr. Orr. Children — Emma, who
married James A. Wetherall; Sherman, and Alice, who married
Mr. Murphy.

8. ELIZABETH married Mr. Stoner.

8. MARY BUFORD married John Henshaw.

7. ANNE, daughter of William and Mary Buford Chap¬
man, married, first, Berryman Jennings. Children — William C.,
Simeon B., Susan J. and Thomas. Annie married, for second
husband, Robert Miller. Children — John A., Lucretia, Hous-
worth and Robert.

8. WILLIAM C. married and had children — Ann S., Eliza¬
beth, Sarah, May and George B.

9. ANN S. married Mr. Baker, died and left no children.

9. GEORGE B. married Martha Williams. Children —
Thomas B., Alice W., William R. and Pansy N.

10. THOMAS B. married Beula Carpenter. Child — Simeon
B., Jr.

8. SIMEON B. married, first, Malinda Miller. Child — Rob¬
ert B. Simeon B. married, for second wife, Ann Kite. Children
— Ann, William K., Elizabeth and Mary Buford.

8. SUSAN J. married James Miller. Children — Mary,
Thomas and Margaret.

8. JOHN A. married, first, Miss Rucker. Child — Lucy N.
John A. married, for second wife, Miss Crop. Children — Brax¬
ton, Annie, Sarah and John.

9. LUCY N. married Hiram Parrott. Children — Lizzie
and Otto.

10. LIZZIE married Mr. Duglas. Child — Annie J.

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8. LUCRETIA married Montgomery Durrett. Children —
Anna B., Florence, Ada, Araminta and Thomas D.

9. ANNA B. married, first, William Ship. Children —
Fritty and Bertie, Anna B. married, second, Dr. George Stephens.
Children — Alice, Anne and Mary B.

10. FRITTY married George Price. Child — Bertie, who
married Albert Yancy. Child — Price.

9. FLORENCE married Montil Estes. Child — Stark.

9. ADA married Dr. B. B. Pennington. Children — Minnie
and Eunice.

9. ARAMINTA married Ashby Dean.

9. THOMAS D. married Mary J. Beasley. They had chil¬
dren.

8. HOUSWORTH married, first, Amelia Sorrel. Children
— Branch, Edward, Anne B. and Alice. Housworth married, sec¬
ond, Elizabeth Whitesel. They had two children.

9. BRANCH married Mr. Blakey.

9. ANNE B. and Alice both married Harlows.

BUFORD

CHAPTER XI

6. FRANCES BUFORD AND FRANCIS KIRTLEY

6. FRANCES, daughter of John and Judith Beauford, of
Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, married Francis
Kirtley. Children — Elijah, Edwin, Nancy and two other daugh¬
ters (see Kirtley, below).

7. ELIJAH, son of Francis and Frances Buford Kirtley,
married Polly, daughter of William and Mary W. Buford. Chil¬
dren — Larkin, Nicholas, Emily, Harriet, Amelia, William,
Charles, Martha, who never married, and Mary.

Polly B. Kirtley died in Missouri in 1835, and Elijah Buford
died in 1860.

8. LARKIN, son of Elijah and Polly B. Kirtley, married
Nancy Dysart, settled in Missouri, had two sons, C. C., of Union
Star, Missouri, and Nicholas, of Savannah, Missouri. Nancy
Kirtley is still living (1903).

8. NICHOLAS, son of Elijah and Polly B. Kirtley, married
twice, last wife, Nancy Langford; settled in Missouri, where he
died ; she returned to Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, and died there.

8. EMILY, daughter of Elijah and Polly B. Kirtley, mar¬
ried Joseph Hines and went to Missouri.

8. HARRIET, daughter of Elijah and Pollie B. Kirtley,
married John Ferguson and had five children. He died and she
married David Bethusem, whom she survived.

8. AMELIA, daughter of Elijah and Polly B. Kirtley, mar¬
ried Lorton Vanhook and had a large family. She died in 1893.

8. WILLIAM, son of Elijah and Pollie B. Kirtley, married
Elizabeth Reynolds. Children — Mary Catherine, who married
W. M. Poynter, of Mount Vernon, Kentucky; William L., of Sa¬
vannah, Missouri, and Anne E.

8. CHARLES never married; was a lawyer and a
preacher.

7. EDWIN, son of Francis and Frances B. Kirtley, married
Ann - . Children — Thomas and Margaret.

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8. THOMAS, son of Edwin and Ann Kirtley, married and
had several children, among them, Mrs. Snell, of Harrison Coun¬
ty, Kentucky; Thomas married, second, Dorathea Jones. Daugh¬
ter — Lucy.

9. LUCY, daughter of Thomas and Dorathea Kirtley, mar¬
ried Zach Henry. Children — Newton K., Helen, Mason R.; Salin-
da, Thomason and Martha J.

10. NEWTON K., son of Zach and Lucy Henry, married
Lavinia Brown. Children — Lucy, Affiah Hellen, William and
Thomas.

11. LUCY HENRY married Joseph A. Payne. Daughter —
Kate.

11. AFFIAH HENRY married Ruben Munday.

11. HELEN HENRY married Scott Green. Children —
Ela, Ina, Lulu, Annie, Gus, Patsy, Edwin, Newton and William T.

12. ELLA GREEN married Jesse Smith. Children —
Helen, Scott and Payne.

12. INA GREEN married Mason Miller. Children — Scott,
Green and Ray.

12. GUS GREEN married Ida Copeland. Children — Alice,
Nicholas and Ruben.

11. WILLIAM (CAPTAIN) HENRY married Josephine
Williamson. They had a son, Frederick, who was killed in a rail¬
road accident in 1891.

11. THOMAS HENRY married Elizabeth Newton. Chil¬
dren — Mary Brown, William, who was accidentally killed in 1890,
at sixteen years of age, Lucy, Lavinia, Sarah and Nellie.

10. HELEN, daughter of Zach and Lucy Henry, married
Powhattan Dorr. Children — William and Robert.

11. WILLIAM DORR married Cynthia Plemons. Children
— Ollie, May, Clarence, Willie and Kate.

12. OLLIE DORR married Charles Kelly. Child — Willie.

12. MAY DORR married Mr. Steadly.

12. WILLIE DORR married Mr. Thomas.

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12. KATE DORR married Dr. Hassel. Children — Frank
and Lucy.

11. ROBERT DORR married Nannie Plemons, sister of his
brother William’s wife. Son — Walton.

10. MASON R., son of Zach and Lucy Henry, married Re¬
becca McGuffin. Children — Rebecca, Zach, Mary, Ellen, Laura,
Lucy, Martha, Newton, Josephine and John.

11. REBECCA HENRY married William Edwards. Chil¬
dren — William and Josephine, Odessa, Missouri.

11. ZACH HENRY married Josephine Patterson. Chil¬
dren — Buford and Mary Curtis.

11. LUCY HENRY married Oscar Renick. Children —
Joseph and Prudence.

12. PRUDENCE RENICK married Mr. Morrison. One
child; Butte, Montana.

11. MARTHA HENRY married James Keith. Children —
Mary, Kenny, Mason Edwards and Zach.

11. NEWTON HENRY married Mrs. Chamberlin. Daugh¬
ter — Mary.

11. JOSEPHINE HENRY married Joseph McLaughlin.
Children — Roe, Eugene, James, Andrew, Rebecca and one other
daughter.

11. JOHN HENRY married Mrs. Whitsett.

10. SALINDA, daughter of Zach and Lucy Henry, mar¬
ried Scott Brown. Children — Sarah, Zach, William, Lucy, Helen
and Samuel.

11. SARAH BROWN married Joseph Thompson. Chil¬
dren — Henry, Emma and Preston.

12. HENRY THOMPSON married Helen Lucas. One
daughter — Jennie, who married Matthew Prewett. Children —
Leslie and Zach.

12. PRESTON THOMPSON married and had children—
Weller and Ward; married, for second wife, Frances Stone.
Child — Sarah.

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11. ZACH BROWN married Frances Winn. Children —
Murray and Mason.

11. WILLIAM BROWN married Libbie Jackman. Chil¬
dren — Minnie, Woodford and Carrie.

11. LUCY BROWN married John Richardson. Son —

Binst, who married Hattie Davis.

11. HELEN BROWN married Robert Triplett. Children
— Norma, Linda, William, Sarah, Gordon and Robert.

12. NORMA TRIPLETT married James Chesney. Chil¬
dren — Willie Bell, Albert and Helen.

12. LINDA TRIPLETT married Mr. Stone. Children —
Brown, Claud, Lucy, Ruth, Edna and Robert.

12. SARAH TRIPLETT married Willard Winter.

12. GORDON TRIPLETT married Carrie Myers. Chil¬
dren — Nevil, Edward and Dudley Blanton.

10. THOMASON, daughter of Zach and Lucy Henry, mar¬
ried Sanford Thomason. Children — Lucy, Samuel, Clay, Zach,
Martha, Fernando, Edgar and Mason.

11. LUCY THOMASON married Alexander Glenn. Chil¬
dren — Sanford and John.

11. SAMUEL THOMASON married Helen Neal. Children
— Sanford Thomason, who married C. S. Vermillion, of Frank¬
fort, Kentucky, Mary Corinne and Edgar.

11. ZACH THOMASON married a widow and has two
daughters — Minnie and Annie.

12. MINNIE THOMASON married John Cobb.

12. ANNIE THOMASON married Kirkendale, of Denver,
Colorado.

11. MARTHA THOMASON married Harrison Brown, of
Versailles, Kentucky.

11. FERNANDO THOMASON married Alice - .

Children — Sanford, Laura, Irene, Alice, Helen and Thomson.

11. EDGAR THOMASON married Miss Snow. Children
— Arthur, Everett and Nannie.

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11. MASON THOMASON married Miss Pi indell. Daugh¬
ter — Susan, Chicago, Illinois.

7. NANCY, daughter of Francis and Frances B. Kirtley,
married James Gaines, of Scott County, Kentucky.

7. One of the two daughters of Francis and Frances B.
Kirtley married Mr. Carroll, and the other married Mr. Duke,
both of Fayette County, Kentucky.

KIRTLEY

1. FRANCIS, known in Culpeper County, Virginia, as Sir
Francis, was the progenitor of the Kirtleys in America, and they
have faithfully perpetuated his name, both men and women. He had
children — William and Francis.

2. WILLIAM, son of Sir Francis Kirtley, married - , and

had children — Margaret. Francis and another son.

3. MARGARET, daughter of William Kirtley, married Simeon
Buford, Sr. (See below).

3. FRANCIS, son of William Kirtley, married Elizabeth,
daughter of William and Ann Walker, of Culpeper County, Virginia.
Children — Frances, married William Buford (see Simeon, below);
Polly, married George Rogers; Elizabeth; Nancy, who married Am¬
brose Buford (see James, of John and Judith Early Beauford, above) ;
Jannetta, who married James Miller; Mildred, who married John
Merrill; Harriet, who married Isham Henderson, of St. Louis, Mis¬
souri; Sinclair, and John H.

4. SINCLAIR, son of Francis and Elizabeth W. Kirtley, mar¬
ried Mary Ann Brackenridge, daughter of Thomas and Mary Simpson
Peebles. Children — Edwin Ryland, who married in Colorado, in 1875;
Mary Simpson, who married Rev. Joseph M. Turner, is now a widow
and lives in Denver, Colorado; Eliza Ryland; Rebecca Todd, who
married, first, George Shields, of Missouri, who died in the Southern
army, during the Civil War and she married, second. R. G. Anderson,
of Salt Lake City, Utah; Frances, who married Joseph A. Thatcher,
of Denver, Colorado.

5. ELIZA RYLAND. daughter of Sinclair and Mary Kirtley.
married, in 1857, Jonnathan C. Royle. Children — Sinclair K., a
physician in New York; Edwin Milton, actor and author, married
Selina Gray Fetter; Martha, who married Mr. King, of Salt Lake
City, and has one child; Jonathan C., Jr., Salt Lake City. Utah.

William Buford was guardian for Sinclair and John H.. and they
were reared at his home, “Tree Hill.” Woodford County, Kentucky.
Sinclair graduated from Transylvania University, at the age of
twenty-four; studied law with his brother-in-law, Isham Henderson;
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lawyer there, but owing to failing health, went to California, where
he died.

4. JOHN H., son of Francis and Elizabeth W. Kirtley, married
and had children — Nancy, Mrs. Roberts and Susan.

5. NANCY, daughter of John H. and Mrs. Kirtley, married Joel
Henry. One daughter — Thomason.

6. THOMASON, daughter of Joel and Nancy Henry, married
Benjamin Gray. Children — Agnes, Mary, Thomason, Joel and Ella.

7. AGNES GRAY, married Mr. West and had one son. Mary
Gray married Mr. Conner. Thomason Gray married Dr. Whitney.
Joel Gray married Mary P. Steel, and their daughter Joe married
Mr. Gren. Ella Gray married Mr. Webb. Children — Tommie, Louise
and Lucy.

5. SUSAN, daughter of John H. and Mrs. Kirtley, married
Henry Stone. Children — Hill and Kittie.

6. HILL, son of Henry and Susan K. Stone, married Ann Hay-
don. Their son, William Stone, married Belle Riley. Children —
Cornelia, Hadley, William and Charles.

2. FRANCIS, son of Sir Francis, married Frances, daughter of
John and Judith Beauford (see above).

A Kirtley married, about 1805, Polly, daughter of Leonard
Barnes, of Culpeper County, Virginia.

A Francis Kirtley, 1762-63, had two daughters, who married
Cowherd and Collins.

Martha Hill married a Kirtley, of Culpeper County, Virginia.

CHAPTER XII

6. SIMEON AND MARGARET KIRTLEY BUFORD

6. SIMEON, son of John and Judith Earley Beauford, born
in Culpeper County, Virginia, 1756, married, 1777, Margaret
Kirtley, daughter of William Kirtley, of Culpeper County (See
Kirtley, above). Children — John, born July 29, 1778; William,
August 22, 1781; Judith, April 4, 1784; Simeon, Jr., May 18,
1787 ; Sarah, July 1, 1790; Mary, August 12, 1792; Elizabeth, De¬
cember 8, 1794; Elijah, June 9, 1797; George Washington, April
22, 1800; Thomas, February 21, 1803.

Simeon Buford made application for pension March 26, 1833,
at which time he was seventy-six years of age and residing in
Barren County, Kentucky. His pension was allowed for eleven
months’ actual service as a private, and eight months’ service as
an ensign in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary War. Part of
the time he served under Captain Abraham Buford and Colonel
Stevens. He enlisted at Culpeper Court-house, Virginia. His
name is borne on the pension roll of 1835, with a pension from
1832, “for six months or more service Continental lin eSJ He,
with his wife and four children, moved from Virginia, 1789, to
Kentucky, and settled at Smoking Spring, Barren County, Ken¬
tucky. He was representative from Barren and Warren counties
in Kentucky Legislature, 1801-1803. In 1808 he moved to Nash¬
ville, Tennessee. He and his wife, Margaret, were buried at
Beaver Creek, near Glasgow, Kentucky.

7. JOHN, son of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Buford,
born in 1778, married, September 1, 1798, for first wife, Nancy
Hickman, of Bourbon County, Kentucky. Children — Helen, born
in 1800; Napoleon Bonaparte, January 13, 1807; Nancy H. Bu¬
ford died in Versailles Kentucky, May 22, 1824 (see Hickman,
below). John married, for second wife, January 4, 1825, Anne
Bannister Watson, who was born September 20, 1785, the widow
of Dr. John Watson, of Frankfort, Kentucky, who died April 12,
and the daughter of Captain Edward and Nancy Lyne Howe

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(see Howe, page 308). Children of John and Anne Bannister
Buford were — John, Jr., born in Woodford County, Kentucky,
March 4, 1826; Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1828, and James
Monroe, 1832.

John Buford died at Rock Island, Illinois, 1847. He was
representative in the Kentucky Legislature from Woodford
County, 1824-1827. He moved to Illinois in 1836 and was for
four years state senator. Anne Bannister Buford died in 1835.

WATSON

The children of Dr. John and Anne B. Watson were — Jane,
Edward, John, Henry and one daughter. Rear Admiral John Watson,
United States Navy, is a son of Edward.

HICKMAN

James Hickman, born in 1724, of Culpeper County, Virginia, mar¬
ried, in 1744, Hannah, born in 1722, daughter of David Lewis, who
married, in 1717, Miss Terrill. David Lewis was born about 1685,
and was the son of John, Sr., who emigrated with his three brothers
from Wales about the middle of the Seventeenth century. John
Lewis, Sr., settled in Hanover County, Virginia, and married Eliza¬
beth McGrath. James Hickman went to Clark County, Kentucky, in
1784, and died there in 1816. His wife died there in 1822, lacking a
few months of being a hundred years of age. They had nine chil¬
dren. Their second child, David, married, in 1771, in Virginia, Clara
McClanahan, and settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he
died in 1825.

They had ten children. Margaret (Peggy), their first child, born
in 1772, in Culpeper County, Virginia, married James Hutchinson,
and had twelve children, the eleventh of whom, Mary, married Henry
Buford of Missouri; Margaret died in Missouri, in 1844; John Lewis,
the third child of David and Clara McClanahan Hickman, born
in 1777, married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of General Richard
Hickman. Their eldest child, Catherine Calloway, born in 1812, mar¬
ried James Keith Marshall. Their first child, Elizabeth, married
Henry Buford (see Charles of Abraham Buford). Caroline P., their
eighth child, married William Duke (see Mary of Abraham Buford).
Nancy, the fourth child of David and Clara McClanahan Hickman,
born in 1779, married John Buford 1st (above).

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McCLANAHAN

William and Margaret, Westmoreland County, Virginia, whose
will is dated 1760, son of Rev. William, born about 1735, married in
175S, Mary, born in 1738, daughter of John Marshall, of “The For¬
est,” Westmoreland County. They were living in Culpeper County,
Virginia, in 1776, and toward the close of the century moved to Green¬
ville, North Carolina, where he died. They had seven children —
Their first, Thomas, 1758-1809, settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky,
married Nancy Green, and had seven children. Their second child
was Clara (above).

HOWE

Captain Edward Howe served during the Revolutionary War in
Captain Henry Lee’s Lighthorse Brigade. His wife, Nancy, was a
daughter of William and Lucy Foster Lyne. William was a son of
William Lyne and Lucy was the daughter of Henry Lyne.

8. HELEN, daughter of John 1st and Nancy Hickman Bu-
ford, married December 18, 1817, at Versailles, Kentucky, Gen¬
eral William Johnson, of Great Crossings, Scott County, Ken-
•tucky. Children — Nancy Buford, born October 27, 1818, and
Hickman, July 21, 1821, died October 27, 1863. Helen Buford
Johnson died in 1823.

JOHNSON

1. William 1st, born in old Culpeper County, Virginia, in what
is now Madison County, in 1714, married Elizabeth Cave in 1742.
She was the fifth child of Benjamin Cave and Hannah Bledsoe, his
wife, and was born in 1720 and died in 17S5. William Johnson died
in 1765. They had eight children.

2. Robert, son of William and Elizabeth Cave Johnson, born in
Orange County, Virginia, July 17, 1745, married, in 1770, Jemima
Suggett, who was born June 29, 1753, and died at Great Crossings,
Scott County, Kentucky, February 23, 1814. Robert Johnson died Oc¬
tober 15, 1815. They had eleven children.

Colonel Robert Johnston (Robbin) was one of the pioneers of
Kentucky. He and his family were inmates of Bryant Station when
attacked by Simon Girty, in 1782. His wife was one of the matrons
who made the perilous trip to and from the spring, in the face of the
Indian ambuscade, to supply water for the little garrison. His infant
son, Richard M., afterward vice-president of the United States, and
famous as the slayer of Tecumseh, who was rocked in a rude cradle
during this siege, a-nd his nurse Betsy, a sister nine years old. did
gallant service, with her little brother, James, seven years old. in

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going from place to place extinguishing the flames lighted by the
Indians.

3. James, son of Colonel Robert and Jemima Suggett Johnson,
was born in Orange County, Virginia, January 1, 1774; married
Nancy Payne, in Fayette County, Kentucky, and died August 13, 1826.
They had twelve children. James was a lieutenant-colonel in the
War of 1812, and distinguished himself in the Battle of the Thames;
was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1808; a presidential
elector in 1821 ; a member of Congress in 1825. He was one of the
wealthiest men of his day, in the Western country.

4. William 2d, son of James and Nancy Payne Johnson, born at
Great Crossings, Scott County, Kentucky, February 4, 1799, married,
first, Helen Buford, December 8, 1817. Children — Nancy and Hickman
(see John Buford 1st). William married, for second wife, Anne H.
Payne. Children — Jilson P., Albert W., Delia P., Helen, Anne and
William. He married, for the third wife, Mrs. Adelaide Harman.

No children. He married fpr fourth wife, Mrs. Anne E. Clayton, and
had one child, Anna. General William Johnson was educated at
West Point Military Academy, and was one of the most prominent
and influential Democrats in Scott County.

9. NANCY BUFORD, daughter of William and Helen
Buford Johnson, married, September 1, 1836, Dr. James G.
Morrison, Georgetown, Kentucky. Children — Edward Ann, born
June 2, 1838; Helen S., October 19, 1843; Nannie J., May 3,
1846; John W., September 3, 1850; Adelaide, April 27, 1848,
died October 4, 1860 ; Francis, October 9, 1863, died October 27,
1863.

10. EDAWARD ANN. (See Temple Buford below.)

10. HELEN S., daughter of John G. and Nancy Bu¬
ford Morrison, married Dr. J. W. Southworth, of Glasgow,
Missouri, October 10, 1865. They had two children — Eve-
lyne, born February 12, 1867, died November 21, 1873, and Nan¬
nie G., February 20, 1878, died October 21, 1878. Helen S.
Southworth died April 15, 1884.

10. NANNIE J., daughter of John G. and Nancy B. Mor¬
rison, married Henry Craig, of Georgetown, Kentucky, Decem¬
ber 15, 1864. Children — John Jefferson, born November 15,
1868, died in 1888; Henry C., December 15, 1871; Evelyne, June
4, 1874.

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10. JOHN W., son of John G. and Nancy B. Morrison, mar¬
ried Miss Sparks, of Arkansas, March 6, 1878. They live in
St. Louis, Missouri. Children — Bessie, born June 6, 1879; John,
September 25, 1880 ; Henry, July 22, 1885.

8. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, son of John and Nancy
Hickman Buford, married, first, Sarah Childs, of Cassanovia,
New York. They had one son, Temple, born in 1833. Napoleon
Buford married, for second wife, Mrs. Mary Anne Pierce, born
Greenwood.

Napoleon Bonaparte Buford was a cadet at United States
Military Academy, July 1, 1823; graduated in 1827; brevet sec¬
ond lieutenant, and second lieutenant, July 27, 1827 ; studied law
at Harvard by permission of the War Department; was assist¬
ant professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the
United States Military Academy, 1834-1835; resigned, 1835;
resident engineer of the Licking River, Kentucky, Improving
Company; iron and banking in Peoria, Illinois, 1857; president
of the Rock Island and Peoria Railroad; colonel twenty-seventh
Illinois infantry, August 10, 1861 ; battle of Belmont, Kentucky,
November 7, 1871; brigadier-general of volunteers, April 10,
1862; in command at Columbus, Kentucky, and Island No. 10,
1862; expidition to Fort Billow, 1862; major-general of volun¬
teers, November 29, 1862, to March 4, 1863; battle of Corinth,
1862; Vicksburg, 1863; command of Cairo, March to September,
1863 ; command Helena, Arkansas, September, 1863, to March,
1865; brevet major-general volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gal¬
lant and meritorrious conduct during the war; mustered out of
service August 24, 1865 ; government inspector of Union Pacific
Railroad, 1867-1869; commissioner of Indian affairs 1868.

General Buford died March 28, 1883.

9. TEMPLE, son of Napoleon and Sarah Childs Buford,
married, December 20, 1854, Edward Ann Morrison. Children —
Nannie B., born December 20, 1855 ; Sallie Childs, November 26,
1857; Napoleon B. 2d, May 7, 1860; Johnson and Morrison

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(twins), born June 25, 1861, both died in infancy. Edward
Ann Buford was divorced, and married, for second husband,
January 18, 1887, Dr. Blanton, of Boone County, Kentucky.

10. NANNIE, daughter of Temple and Edward Ann Bu¬
ford, married, December 7, 1880, Bedford Leslie. She died in
1882. No children.

a ). SALLIE CHILDS, daughter of Temple and Edward
Ann Buford, married Henry F. Duncan, November 9, 1876. They
live in Louisville, Kentucky. No children.

10. NAPOLEON B. 2d, son of Temple and Edward Ann
Buford, married Margaret Carpenter, October 25, 1880. They
live in Chicago, Illinois. No children.

8. JOHN, JR., son of John and Anne Bannister Buford,
married, May 9, 1854, Martha McDowell Duke, daughter
of James and Mary Buford Duke (see Martha McDowell (Pat-
tie) Duke of Abraham, above).

This is the hero of the battle of Gettysburg, called John
Buford 3d (see the picture of Gettysburg monument).

JOHN BUFORD, JR., cadet United States Military Academy
July 1, 1844; brevet second lieutenant, First Dragoons, July,
1848 ; second lieutenant, Second Dragoons, February 1, 1849 ;
first lieutenant, July, 1853; regimental quartermaster, 1855-58;
captain, March, 1859; engagement, 1855, with Sioux Indians,
at Blue Water, Kansas, disturbances, 1856-57; major, assistant
inspector-general, March 12, and attached to General Pope’s
staff, March 25, 1861; brigadier-general volunteers, July 27,
1862, and command of brigade of cavalry, consisting of First
Michigan, Fifth New York, First Vermont and First West Vir¬
ginia ; engagement at Madison Court house, August 9, Kelley’s
Ford, August 12, Thoroughfare Gap, August 28; second battle
of Manassas, August 29 and 30, in which engagement he was
wounded ; acting chief of cavalry of the Army of Potomac in
Maryland campaign ; battle of South Mountain, September 14,
1862; Antietam, September 17, 1862; after Antietam was sue-

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ceeded by General Stoneman ; was on McClellan’s staff ; assigned
to the command of the reserved cavalry brigade of the Army of
the Potomac, upon the completion of the cavalry organization
under Burnside, General Stoneman being made chief ; was leader
in nearly every cavalry engagement subsequent to this; Freder¬
icksburg, December, 1862; Stoneman’s raids into Virginia, May,
1863; Brandy Station, Beverly Ford, Aldie, Middleburg, an ) Up-
perville, June, 1863; appointed major-general of volunteers July,
1863; selected the site and opened the battle of Gettysburg, July
1, 1863; checked Hill’s corps for four hours with a small force
of worn-out cavalry until relieved by Reynolds.

John Buford said of this battle, “A heavy task was before
us. We were equal to it, and shall remember with pride that at
Gettysburg we did our country much service.”

He did splendid service July 2, at Wolf’s Hill and Round
Top; pursued the Confederates to Warrenton, Virginia, engaging
them at Culpeper and across the Rapidan, and cut his way back
to the army north of Rappahannock. In October he covered the
rear of Meade’s army during a retrograde movement ; was in an
endless number of small engagements ; assigned to command the
cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland. Before assuming com¬
mand he was taken ill, suffering from an old wound received at
the second battle of Manassas, and worn out with three years’
constant and arduous service, he died at Washington, District of
Columbia, December 16, 1863, the date of his commission as
major-general, which he received before his death. He was but
thirty-seven years old. “A splendid officer and one of the most
successful in the service.” Honored by friends and foes, the
pride and hope of the cavalry arm of the service, no nobler epitaph
to him can be written in the history of his country than “Old
Steadfast,” the name given him by his comrades, and one by
which his men loved to call him. He was buried at West Point,
where a monument is erected to his memory. A bronze statue
of him was also erected July 1, 1895, near the town of Gettys-

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burg, on the spot where he fired the first gun of the battle.
General Janies H. Wilson, in his address at the dedication of the
statue, pays this tribute to his memory: “Strong, courageous,
and generous, as they (Bufords) were through many generations,
the very flower and jewel of this family, was the gentleman in
whose name we are gathered here today.”

The eloquent and admirable address delivered by General
James H. Wilson at the unveiling of the Buford statue was
something more than a portrayal of the distinguishing traits of
a splendid soldier. It was also a discussion of the historical ques¬
tion as to who deserves the credit of selecting the field for the
greatest battle ever fought on this continent, or, as it has been
put in other words, who “made Gettysburg possible.”

This honor General Wilson ascribes unhesitatingly to Gen¬
eral John Buford, and makes Buford’s act one not of chance but
of deliberate choice, his soldierly eye taking in the full startegic
value of Gettysburg field, with its commanding ridges and its
excellent highways, and his resolute will, determining to secure
it at all hazards. At that time Buford was in the prime of life
and experience, “an ideal soldier and leader.” Coming of a fight¬
ing ancestry, after his graduation at West Point, in 1848, he had
plenty of service in the Dragoons. He had risen to the command
of the first division of the cavalry corps, in the Army of the Po¬
tomac, and in the movements that resulted at Gettysburg was
heading Meade’s advance.

It was on the afternoon of June 30 that Buford, reaching
Gettysburg, drove out a small force of the enemy that occupied
it. His information satisfied him, late that night, that Hill’s
corps of Lee’s army was only nine miles distant, at Cashtown,
with its advance several miles nearer Gettysburg. Convinced
that he was on the spot where a decisive trial of strength between
the two armies could be had, with an advantage in position to
the Union forces, and knowing that Reynolds, with the first and
eleventh corps, was encamped only five miles away, he determin-

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ed to hold his position against the enemy, as he grimly expressed
it, “completed arrangements for entertaining him until Rey¬
nolds could reach the scene.

The testimony of Buford’s signal officer as to what occurred
on the night of June 30 is rightly regarded by General Wilson
as the most direct on the point in question. His report records
that Buford spent hours with Colonel Devin, and, in discussing
the news brought by the latter’s scouts, remarked that “the battle
would be fought at that point, and he was sure it would be com¬
menced in the morning, before the infantry could get up.” The
signal officer adds that “these were his own words.” On Colonel
Devin’s replying lightly that he “would take care of all that at¬
tack my front during the next twenty-four hours,” Buford
answered : “No, you won’t; they will attack you in the morning,
and will come booming, skirmishers three deep. The enemy must
know the importance of this position, and will strain every nerve
to secure it, and if we are able to hold it we will do well.”

The enemy did come booming in the morning, and the tenacity
with which Buford held his ground showed the importance he
attached to the field. One of his brigades having been sent else¬
where, by orders, he had but two left, Gable’s and Devin’s, and
these he dismounted, sending their horses well to the rear, or
concealing them, thus giving the enemy, if possible, the impres¬
sion that Meade’s infantry had come up. He had one battery of
horse artillery, and this he himself posted. Most welcome was
the arrival of Reynold’s advance under Wadsworth, giving a little
respite to the hard-pressed cavalrymen, while the latter, in turn,
when the first corps had been shattered by the enemy’s fierce
onset, were able to cover its re-formation on Cemetery Ridge
by standing, as General F. A. Walker put it, “drawn up in a line
of battalions in mass as steady as if on parade.” The Comte de
Paris, in his history of the war, declares that Buford alone “se¬
lected the ground upon which unforeseen circumstances were
about to bring the two armies into contact. Neither Meade nor

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Lee had any personal knowledge of it.” “Buford,” proceeds this
historian, “did not even have time to send to Meade a description
of the advantages of the position and to receive his instructions.
Knowing that Reynolds was within supporting distance of him,
he boldly resolved to risk everything in order to allow the latter
time to reach Gettysburg in advance of the Confederate Army.
The first inspiration of a cavalry officer and a true soldier de¬
cided in every respect the fate of the campaign. It was Buford
who selected the battle-field where the two armies were about
to measure their strength.”

One interesting bit of testimony is added by the signal of¬
ficer already spoken of. He had taken his station, on the morning
of July 1, in the cupola of the Lutheran Seminary, and while the
battle was raging, described the corps flag of General Reynols :

“I sent one of my men to Buford, who came up, and looking
through my glass, confirmed my report, and remarked, ‘Now we
can hold the place/

“General Reynolds and staff came up on the gallop in ad¬
vance of the corps, when I made the following communication :

“ ‘Reynolds himself will be here in five minutes, his corps
is about a mile behind/

“Buford returned to my station, and watched, anxiously, ob¬
servations made through my signal telescope. When Reynolds*
came up, seeing Buford in the Cupola, he cried out :

“ ‘What’s the matter John?’

“ ‘The devil’s to pay,’ said Buford, upon reaching the
ground.

“Reynolds said, ‘I hope you can hold out until my corps
comes up.’

“ ‘I reckon I can,’ was the characteristic reply. The two of¬
ficers then rode rapidly to the front.”

Not many minutes later the gallant Reynolds was shot
through the head and was succeeded in command by General
Howard. Buford was not destined long to outlive him. After

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taking part in this opening struggle of Gettysburg, he was sta¬
tioned on the extreme left of the army, and on the third day of
the battle was allowed to withdraw to Westminster to rest and
refit. Had he lived to the end of the war, he might perhaps never
have found an opportunity to perform more valuable service than
that of July 1, 1863, when he held at bay for a time the Confed¬
erate advances at Gettysburg, and, as General Wilson expressed it,
successfully covered the formation of the line on the ridges against
which Lee’s veteran corps fought themselves to a frazzle, in the
two days bloody conflict that followed. General Wilson’s dis¬
cussion of Buford’s service at Gettysburg carries the weight that
comes from the opinion of one of the greatest cavalrymen of the
war, and one of the most eminent of its surviving soldiers.

8. THOMAS JEFFERSON, son of John and Anne Ban¬
nister Buford, married, September 13, 1853, Grace Bowers,
daughter of Henry Giles and Mary C. Bowers, who was born
November 25, 1831. Children — Mary, born May 15, 1854, died
young; Sarah, April 28, 1857; John Watson, January 11, 1859;
Grace, October 24, 1860, died young; Emeline Swigert, November
6, 1862 ; Anna Bowers, September 2, 1864 ; Thomas Jefferson, Jr.,
March 7, 1866; James Monroe 2d, July 16, 1868, died in infancy;
James Monroe 3d, January 25, 1870, died in infancy, Rock Island,
•Illinoois.

9. JOHN WATSON BUFORD now resides at Missoula,
Montana (1924) .

9. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Evanston, Illinois, has a gover¬
nment position at Washington, D. C., Interstate Commerce Com¬
mission.

BOWERS

1. George Bowers, probably born in England or in Wales, is
mentioned in the records of the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, in
1637. In 1639 he was at Plymouth, and later of Cambridge, where
his wife, Barbaea, died, March 25, 1644, and he married, second, Eliz¬
abeth Worthington, April 15. 1649. George died in 1656. He had six
children by his two wives.

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2. Benamuel, his eldest child, admitted an inhabitant of
Charleston, November 30, 1660, married, December 9, 1653, Eliza¬
beth Dunster, niece or cousin of President Dunster, of Harvard Col¬
lege. Benamuel suffered much persecution as an Anabaptist and
Quaker. An interesting account of him is to be found in “Paige’s
History of Cambridge, Massachusetts.” His will was dated October
5, 1693, probated May 28, 1698. His wife was living as late as Decem¬
ber 26, 1693. They had nine children.

3. Jonathan, born August 11, 1673, had banns published with
Anne Sylvester, of Boston, February 11, 1695-96. He was the founder
of Somerset, then part of Swansea. He first bought land in Somerset
(Swansea), November 20, 1704. He was a shipbuilder, and built the
first house in Somerset, which is still standing. He had a second
wife, Hannah Atkins, and died in 1745. He had ten children by his
two wives.

4. Henry, born November 18, 1716, lived for a time at Salem,
and later at Somerset, where his first old colonial house is still stand¬
ing. He was a Quaker, like most of his relatives in Somerset. He
married, first, Rebecca Taber, who died July 4, 1760, and a year later
he married Mary Wouton. Their marriage certificate is in the
Quaker form, and is witnessed by the entire company present. He
was a ship owner and merchant, but met with heavy losses during
the Revolution. His estate was inventoried at $6,000, in 1790. He
had ten children.

5. William Harris, born July 22, 1756, married Martha Hall, of
Middletown, Connecticut, April 4, 1710. They had four children.

6. Henry Giles, born June 19, 1790, died March 31, 1844, married,
for his first wife, Lucy Warner Russell, of Middletown, Connecticut,
October 30, 1811. They had eight children. She died June 22, 1825.
He married, for his second wife, Ann Butler, of Northampton, June
27, 1826. She died March 28, 1827. He married, for his third wife,
Mary Wells Childs, born December 21, 1829. Child — Grace (see
above), born November 25, 1831.

CHILDS

1. Richard Childs, of Barnstable, Massachusetts, married Eliza¬
beth Crocker. Son.

2. Timothy, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, married Hannah Chapin
Sheldon. Son.

3. Capton Timothy, Jr., of Deerfield, Massachusetts, married
Mary Wells. Son.

4. Dr. Timothy 3rd, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, married Rachel
Eastton. Daughter.

5. Mary Wells (see above).

9. SARAH, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Grace B.
Buford, married, January 7, 1881, James Franklin Bell, lieu-

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tenant seventh cavalry, United States Army. He was appointed
to United States Military Academy, from Kentucky, September,
1874; second lieutenant cavalry, 1878; transferred to the seventh
cavalry August, 1878; first lieutenant, December, 1890; captain,
March, 1899; brigadier-general, 1901; service United States vol¬
unteers, major, May, 1898; honorably discharged, April, 1899;
major and assistant adjutant general, April, 1899; lieutenant-
colonel, thirty-second United States infantry, July, 1899; de¬
clined colonelcy, thirty-sixth United States infantry, July, 1899;
brigadier-general, December, 1899 ; medal of honor for most dis¬
tinguished gallantry in action, September 9, 1899, near Porac,
Luzon, Philippine Islands, while serving as colonel of the thirty-
sixth infantry, United States volunteers.

9. EMELINE, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Grace
B. Buford, married, June 6, 1888, Captain George K. Sanderson,
eleventh United States infantry, who died February 2, 1893. She
married, for second husband, May 14, 1895, Martin F. Hanley.

9. ANNA BOWERS, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and
Grace B. Bowers, married, August 17, 1886, Lieutenant Ernest
Garlington, Seventh United States cavalry. Children — Creswell,
born June 23, 1887; Buford, January 10, 1889, died in infancy;
Sally, February 3, 1890.

CONWAY-GARLINGTON

1. Edwin Conway, of the County Wigorn, that is, the County
of Worcester, England, born in 1610, came to America in 1640. In
his first land grant, his name is given as Edwyn Conaway Clarke,
married Martha Ettenherd. or Eltonhead, who came to America in
1652. He died in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1675. Son.

2. Edwin, Jr., of Lancaster County, Virginia, born 1640-44, mar¬
ried, 1675-80, Sarah Fleet, died August, 1698. Son.

3. Edwin 3d, born in Lancaster County, October 3, 1681, married,
1704, Annie, daughter of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth Romney Ball,
a half sister of Mary, the mother of George Washington. Edwin 3d
died October 3, 1763. Daughter.

4. Elizabeth, married, May 5, 1824. Christopher Garlington, of
Northumberland County, who had a grant of land in that county in
1663. Son.

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5. Edwin Conway Garlington, born in Lancaster County, Vir¬
ginia, March 5, 1746, died in Lancaster County, South Carolina, mar¬
ried, March 13, 1774, Susannah Dickie, born January 12, 1755, died
December 3, 1795. Children — Conway, Edwin, Joseph, John and
Christopher.

6. Christopher, born May 30, 1792, married Elizabeth Aycock,
of Georgia. Son (7), Albert Christopher, married Sallie, daughter of
Peter Moon, of Newberry, South Carolina. Alber was a lawyer, state
senator, adjutant-general and inspector-general, South Carolina. Son.

8. Earnest Albert, graduated at West Point in 1876; second lieu¬
tenant, seventh United States cavalry, June 15, 1876; first lieutenant,
June, 1876; commanded the Army, Greeley Relief Expedition; cap¬
tain, December, 1891; major and inspector-general, January, 1895;
lientenant-colonel and inspector, July, 1898; colonel and inspector-
general, 1901; medal of honor for gallantry in action against Sioux
Indians, on Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, December 29, 1890,
where he was severely wounded while serving as first lieutenant,
seventh cavalry.

8. JAMES MONROE, son of John and Ann Bannister Bu¬
ford, married, in 1856, Felicia Clark, daughter of Joseph and
Harriet Julian Clark. Children — Herndon, born September 4,
1856, died in infancy; Jane Swigert, October 28, 1860; Clark
Howe, November 14, 1870, died July 29, 1893, Rock Island, Illi¬
nois.

9. JANE SWIGERT, daughter of James M. and Felicia
Buford, married February 3, 1880, R. R. Cable, president of the
C., R. I. & P. R. R., Chicago, Illinois.

CLARKE

1. Matthew Clarke, a soldier of the Revolution, born in Virginia
in 1762, married Ellen Brown, died in Franklin County, Kentucky.

Son.

2. Joseph, of “Locust Grove,” Franklin County, Kentucky, born
July 28, 1793, died Deceber 10, 1875. Pensioner of the war of 1812,
married Harriet Julian.

JULIAN

1. Charles Julian, of Spottsylvania County, Virginia, married
Widow Reynolds. Son.

2. Dr. John, surgeon Virginia Continental line. Revolutionary
War, married Margaret Lowns or (Lounds). Son — Dr. Charles, of
Franklin County, Kentucky, who married Jane Moore. Daughter —
Harriet.

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MOORE

Jane was a daughter of Edward Moore and Ellen McDonald, his
wife, daughter of Donald McDonald.

7. WILLIAM, son of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Buford,
married in Fayette County, Kentucky, December 31, 1801 his
cousin, Francis Walker Kirtley, daughter of Francis and Eliza¬
beth Walker Kirtley, who was born in Rockingham County, Vir¬
ginia, on the banks of the Shenandoah River, February 6, 1787
(see Kirtley, Frances Buford above). Children — Francis Kirt¬
ley, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, January 21, 1803;
Simeon 3rd, in Fayette County, Kentucky, February, 1805, died in
infancy. The others, all born at “Tree Hill,” Woowford Countny,
Kentucky, were Margaret Kirtley, born October 3, 1806; Ann
Merry, December 24, 1808; William, March 22, 1811, died June
18, 1848; John 2d, March 21, 1813; Elizabeth Walker, September
17, 1815; Sinclair James, October 9, 1817, died August, 1851;
Abraham, January 16, 1820; Martha and Mary (twins), June 29,
1821 ; Martha died November 15, 1848, and Mary died November
2, 1873; Thomas, September 18, 1824, died February 12, 1885;
George Henry, May 4, 1827.

William Buford, died September 18, 1848. His wife,
Frances Kirtley Buford, died May 29, 1866. William Buford was
known as Colonel Billy, in contradistinction to his cousin William
(also of Woodford County), the son of Colonel Abraham Buford,
of Scott County, the latter being called “Scott Bill.”

Colonel Billy was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, and
came with his father’s family to Kentucky. At the age of twenty-
one he married his own cousin, Frances Walker Kirtley, also of
Virginia stock, in Barron County, Kentucky. From there they
moved to Woodford County, in 1805.' Frances was but fifteen
when married. This young couple reared to maturity twelve of
their thirteen children, seven sons and five daughters. Like most
educated Kentuckians of that day, industrious, frugal and thrifty,
they rapidly accumultaed a fine estate in the very garden of the

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Blue Grass country and were able to give their children every ad¬
vantage, educational and social, obtainable in the state at that in¬
teresting period. Their sterling virtues, love of home and family,
affectionate attachment to friends and chivalric justice to foes,
their industry, uprightness, and morality, were renewed in their
children.

William Buford spent his whole life in agricultural pursuits,
giving particular attention to raising fine stock on his splendid
farm, which he called “Tree Hill.,, He left, by his will, his en¬
tire estate to his two sons, Thomas and Henry, as executors, with
the exception of a few specified legacies. As the indebtedness of
the estate was large, he placed it in the hands of his two executors,
who had been closely associated with him in his business affairs
during the latter part of his life, giving them directions that,
after the settlement and division of the estate, they should give
certain portions to those of his children who had been left out of
the will. The estate was managed with success, and finally ad¬
justed, Henry selling one-half of his landed property, which in¬
cluded the old homestead, to Mr. Robert Alexander, a wealthy
Englishman and near neighbor. The mother’s dowry was given
to her, and Thomas, who refused to sell a portion of the estate,
made every effort to keep the homestead in the family. Unfor¬
tunately this involved him in a series of lawsuits, which lasted
for years, and in the end failed to accomplish his purpose for, at
his mother’s death, the property went to Mr. Alexander, and is
still in the possession of his heirs.

8. FRANCIS K., son of William and Frances W. K. Buford,
married, November 25, 1834, Mary Walker Mills. He came to
Missouri, and was elected, representative from Calloway County
in 1830 and became a member of the Legislature at Jefferson
City, Missouri. He died in Versailles, Kentucky, November 1,
1835. Mary Walker Buford died in Franklin County, Kentucky,
June 27, 1848.

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8. MARGARET KIRTLEY, daughter of William and
Frances W. K. Buford, married, September 8, 1823, Joel Twy-
man, of Woodford County, Kentucky, who was born in 1797, and
died in 1879. Children — William B., Frances M., Emily M., Eliz¬
abeth H., Francis K. B. and Mary Walker. Margaret K. B. Twy-
man died, in Missouri, August 13, 1881.

9. WILLIAM B., son of Joel and Margaret Twyman, mar¬
ried Lucy Townsend Nowlin, daughter of John S. and Adeline
Buford Nowlin. Four children living.

9. EMILY M., daughter of Joel and Margaret Twyman,
married Benjamin Eddings. Two children.

9. ELIZABETH H., daughter of Joel and Margaret Twy¬
man, married Buford S. Nowlin, son of John S. and Adeline Now¬
lin.

9. FRANCIS K. B., son of Joel and Margaret Twyman,
married Mrs. Harvey. Three children.

9. MARY WALKER, daughter of Joel and Margaret Twy¬
man, married William Buford. Six children. (For William Bu¬
ford, see Alex, son of Abraham, son of James.)

8. ANN MERRY, daughter of William and Frances W. K.
Buford, married, October 3, 1833, Caleb Wallace, of St. Peter’s
Parish, Beaufort District, South Carolina. Son — Caleb Manor,
born October 30, 1834. Ann Merry Wallace died in Fayette
County, Kentucky, August 20, 1884. Her husband died many
years before.

9. CALEB MANOR, son of Caleb and Ann Merry Wal¬
lace, married, February 5, 1859, Annie Oldham. Children —
David Manor, born November 26, 1860; Henry Buford, April 5,
1862; Susie, April 23, 1865; Annie, May 29, 1868. Caleb Manor
Wallace died October 27, 1867.

8. JOHN, son of William and Frances W. K. Buford, mar¬
ried Elizabeth Holmes Singleton, born in 1816, in Winchester,
Virginia (see Ball, below). He went from Kentucky to Han¬
nibal, Missouri, in 1837; here, at the house of her sister, Mrs.

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McDonald, he met and married his wife; they settled on a farm
near Manchester, Missouri, where they spent the rest of their
lives. Children — William J., born November 2, 1838; Mary
Frances, February 23, 1840; Virginia, July 3, 1842; Singleton,
February 3, 1845, died August 2, 1886; Marshall N., April 6,
1847 ; John H., August, 1850. John Buford died at St. Louis, De¬
cember 24, 1885.

9. WILLIAM J., son of John and Elizabeth Holmes Single-
ton Buford, married Mary Link. Children — Frank P., born May

4, 1868, in Franklin County, Missouri; Virginia, May 13, 1870;
Marshall, March 2, 1872; Henry Clay, April 19, 1875, never
married.

William J. Buford died March 5, 1922. Mary Link Buford
died May 14, 1907.

10. FRANK P., son of William J. and Mary Link Buford,
married February 14, 1897, to Willie Jane Edwards, who was
born October 28, 1881. Children — Claude Elmo, born August 19,
1903; Francis Newport, May 29, 1906; Marvin Munroe, October
13, 1909.

10. VIRGINIA, daughter of William J. and Mary Link Bu¬
ford, married Rufus Wolfe. No children.

10. MARSHALL, son of William J. and Mary Link Buford,
married and had five children.

9. MARY FRANCES, daughter of John and Elizabeth H.

5. Buford, married John A. McElroy, born August 4, 1841.
Children — Florence, born November 20, 1865 ; Celest, November
3, 1867; John Singleton, October 3, 1869; Charles Beaufort, No¬
vember 26, 1871; Mary Emmeline, May 12, 1874; Frances Beau¬
fort, June 6, 1877; Ralph, December 11, 1880, died July, 1881;
Frederick G., May 25, 1882, died October 6, 1891, Kirkwood, Mis¬
souri.

10. FLORENCE, daughter of John A. and Mary F. B. Mc¬
Elroy, married William T. Hazard, St. Louis, Missouri.

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10. CELESTER, daughter of John and Mary F. B. Mc-
Elroy, married Clement S. Hickman, St. Louis, Missouri.

10. JOHN SINGLETON, son of John H. and Mary F. B.
McElroy, married and had children — John Singleton and Mary
Emmeline.

10. MARY EMMELINE, daughter of John A. and Mary
F. B. McElroy, married Arthur Howard Mott. Children — Beau¬
fort Vallentine, born February 19, 1894; Florence McElroy, July
6, 1896, St. Louis, Missouri.

10. FRANCES BEAUFORT, daughter of John A. and
Mary F. B. McElroy, married February 18, 1891, David Alonzo
Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri.

9. VIRGINIA, daughter of John and Elizabeth H. S. Bu¬
ford, married Henry Brooks. Children — Justin, Marshall, Lloyd,
Mary Frances and John, Fort Scott, Kansas.

9. MARSHALL N., son of John and Elizabeth H. S. Bu¬
ford, married and had children — Ella, John and Mary Frances,
Manchester, Missouri.

9. JOHN H., son of John and Elizabeth H. S. Buford, mar¬
ried and had children — Walter and Singleton, Manchester, Mis¬
souri.

BALL-SINGLETON

1. Colonel (courtesy) William Ball, of ye Lancaster County, in
Rappahannock, born in England, in 1615, married in London, Eng¬
land, July 2, 1638, Hannah Atherold, probably daughter of Thomas
Atherold, of Burgh, Suffolk. Children, born in England — Richard.
William, Jr., Joseph and Hannah. They came to America in 1650 and
settled at the mouth of the Corotoraan River, Lancaster County, Vir¬
ginia. Colonel William died in Millenbeck, Lancaster County, in
October, 1680. His will is dated October 15, 1680, and probated in
November, 1680. Hannah survived her husband.

2. Captain William, Jr., born June 2, 1641, married, first, Mar¬
garet, or Mary, daughter of James Williamson, of Rappahannock
County. He married, second, Miss Harris, daughter of William
Harris, who was Burgess for Lancaster County, 1652-53-57-58. He
married, third. Margaret, daughter of Raleigh Downman. Children,
by his second wife, eight, among them William 3d. Captain William.
Jr., died in Lancaster County, September 30, 1694, (2) Joseph of

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Colonel and Hannah Ball, of “Epping Forest,” Lancaster County,
married, first, in 1675, Elizabeth Rogers (or Romney). He mar¬
ried, second, Mrs. Mary Johnson. His daughter, Mary, by second
marriage, married Augustine Washington. Son — George, born Feb¬
ruary 11, 1731-32.

3. William 3d (Colonel), born in 1696, married Hannah Beale.
William 3d died March, 1744-45. Hannah died before her husband.
Their second child was,

4. George, married, October 10, 1735, 'Judith Payne. Their
fourth child was,

5. William 4th, born in 1740, married, first, Judith Throckmor¬
ton (may have been Kempe), second, Drusilla Singleton. Children,
of the first marriage —

6. William Payne, married and had children; lived near Lex¬
ington, Kentucky.

6. Thomas Kempe, Frederick County, Virginia.

6. Elizabeth Henry, married Mr. Tyler.

6. Nancy, married Mr. Campbell.

6. Judith Throckmorton, married General James W. Singleton.
Children.

7. Anne, married Honorable Joseph H. Sherrard, of Winchester,
Virginia.

7. Frances, married Edward McDonald.

7. Judith, married Robert Kerchival.

7. Lucy, married E. Cartwright Breedon.

7. Elizabeth, married John Buford.

7. James, married Catherine McDonald, General and member of
Congress from Illinois.

8. ELIZABETH WALKER, daughter of William and
Frances W. K. Buford, married, May 8, 1832, James W. Allen, of
Shelby County, Kentucky. Child — Aseneth, born in 1834, died in
Victoria, Texas, in 1850. Elizabeth W. K. Allen died January 10,
1857.

8. ABRAHAM, son of William and Frances W. K. Buford,
married Amanda Harris. Son — William.

Abraham Buford was a cadet in the United States Military
Academy, July 1, 1837, to July 1, 1841 ; brevet second lieutenant,
First Dragoons, 1841 ; duty, Fort Atkinson, Kansas, 1841-42 ;
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, second lieutenant, First Dragoons,
April 12, 1842 ; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1842-43 ; scouting on
the plains, 1843 ; Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1843-44-45 ; Fort
Washita, Indian Territory, 1845 ; Fort Gibson, 1845-46 ; Mexican

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GENERAL ABRAHAM BUFORD. C. S. A.

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War, 1846-48; first lieutenant, First Dragoons, December 6,
1846; battle of Buena Vista, February 22-23, 1847; brevet cap¬
tain, February 23, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at
the battle of Buena Vista; Fort Gibson, 1848; Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 1848; Socorro, New Mexico, 1848-49; Dona Ana, New
Mexico, 1850-51; Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, 1851-52; skirmish
on Puerto River, New Mexico, August 26, 1851 ; Cavalry School,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1852-53; captain First Dragoons, June
15, 1853; secretary Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Military Asylum,
1853-54; resigned October 22, 1854; lived on his estate, “Bosque
Bonita,” near Versailles, Kentucky, 1854-61.

GENERAL ABRAHAM BUFORD was a man of enormous
proportions, and his strength and endurance equaled his size. As
thoroughly a son of Mars in temperament as physique, he was
born a fighter, and so rigid a disciplinarian that he could not
always resist the temptation to command in civil life.

At the beginning of the war, he wras a farmer and stock
raiser. There was too much at stake for him to go with the
South, without due consideration, and he did not decide to do so
until Morgan’s raid into Kentucky, in 1862.

He joined Morgan at Georgetown, and from there went
South; was appointed colonel, and began at once to recruit his
command. With five thousand raw recruits he joined Bragg and
covered his retreat from Perryville. On the arrival of Bragg at
Knoxville, Kirby Smith ordered that the mounted men of Bu¬
ford’s command be dismounted, in order that their horses might
be used for the artillery. Buford protested against this, and, as
his protest was of no avail, gave up his command. He then re¬
ported to Jefferson Davis, in Richmond, who gave him his com¬
mission as brigadier, and ordered him to report to Pemberton,
in Mississippi, by whom he was assigned to a brigade in Loring’s
division, sonsisting of three Kentucky regiments, commanded by
Crossland Thompson, and Shacklett, and one from Alabama,
which brigade he commanded at the battle of Champion Hill,

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where Grant defeated the Confederates. After this defeat Bu¬
ford did not enter Vicksburg, but joined Joe Johnson, at Jackson,
Mississippi; remained at Canton until Sherman moved on Vicks¬
burg, when he fell back to the Tombigbee.

In the spring of 1864 he was ordered to join Forrest, at
Tupelo, Mississippi, and in May moved through Tennessee into
Southern Kentucky and on to Paducah. In this campaign Buford
captured enough horses to mount his command, and then fell back
to Jackson, with all the plunder, and his men equipped as cavalry¬
men. From Jackson, Forrest moved to Fort Pillow, and Buford
was ordered, with five hundred men, to make a feint against
Columbus and Paducah, which was successfully done, stopping at
these places several transports loaded with men for Fort Pillow.
Paducah was garrisoned by five thousand men. General Payne
was summoned to surrender, which he was near doing. Buford
captured all the Federal artillery horses and went off unmolested.
He rejoined Forrest at Tupelo. Sturgis moved out of Memphis
with five thousand men. Forest met him at Tishemingo Creek,
and, after a terrible battle of four hours, captured his entire com¬
mand, except himself and staff. In the morning before the fight
Forrest asked Buford what he thought of the situation, to which
he replied, “Fight and fight d - n quick.”

This was one of the most successful cavalry engagements of
the war. Two months later Buford engaged General A. J.
Smith, and in half an hour lost four hundred fifty men killed and
wounded, Smith falling slowly back to Memphis. In the follow¬
ing spring General Wilson gave Forrest a terrible whipping at
Selma, and Buford fell back, in front of the victorious army, to
Columbus, Georgia. On the retreat of Hood’s army from Nash¬
ville, Buford covered the retreat, and engaged in a fight with a
Federal major, who struck him on the head with a sword, shout¬
ing as he did so, “Surrender, you d - n big rebel,” and Buford’s

reply was to kill him instantly by a shot from his revolver.

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At the close of the war, he surrendered, at Gainsville, Ten¬
nessee, then retired to his beautiful home, “Bosque Bonita,”
where he once more engaged in breeding and raising race-horses,
naming many of them for his old army friends.

Here he lost his only child, a boy, at the very threshold of
manhood. Neither he nor his wife ever recovered from this ter¬
rible blow, and she died a short time after. With these sorrows
came the loss of his home and all his possessions. Crushed and
broken by grief and age, there was no incentive to begin life
again, so he ended it all by shooting himself, in Indiana, June 9,
1884.

8. THOMAS BUFORD was born at “Tree Hill,” Woodford
County. At the age of eighteen he was sent to Georgetown Col¬
lege, where he remained one year. When the Reverend Dr. L. W.
Seeley, professor of language in that institution, resigned his
chair, and proceeded to open a high school in Woodford County,
quite a number of students, Thomas Buford among them, refused
to abandon their old preceptor, to whom they were greatly at¬
tached, and followed him to his new field of labor as a teacher.
Young Buford remained with him until his education was suffi¬
ciently advanced for him to undertake the study of law, to which
profession his father wished him to devote himself. However,
about this time, Colonel Buford becoming physically disabled by
an accident, Thomas was to a great extent withdrawn from his
studies, in order to assist his father in attending to the business
of the farm. Nevertheless, under the supervision of Dr. Seeley,
he read many law books, together with a great deal of standard
literature, poetry, etc., visiting the doctor two or three times a
week for that purpose.

Colonel William Buford, his father, died on the 18th of Sep¬
tember, 1848 (Thomas being exactly twenty-four on that day),
leaving, by his last will, his entire estate to his sons, Henry and
Thomas Buford, as executors. After the adjustment of the
estate, Thomas secured another farm, and devoted himself to the

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turf, and was most successful. Although he had been educated
for a lawyer, he never practiced. He was a student, and while his
mind was never very well balanced, he was a good talker, genial,
pleasant, and companionable, but at times inclined to seek soli¬
tude and quiet. He was never violent, but was, under the greatest
piovocation, cool and composed. He had several serious alterca¬
tions, where shooting was resorted to by both parties, in which
he acted in the coolest and most indifferent manner, as though he
had no interest in the matter beyond self-protection. He was the
very soul of grit, temperate, and moderate in every respect. It
is questionable whether he ever provoked any of his many
troubles. His last financial ventures, although at first appar¬
ently successful, were finally most disastrous, involving him in
a series of lawsuits, lasting ten years, and wrecking him finan¬
cially, physically and mentally.

In 1873, hoping to pass the remainder of his life in quiet and
comfort, he invested all he and his sister, Mary (to whom he was
devotedly attached), possessed in a tract of land in Henry County,
Kentucky. The title was not only defective, in that it described a
totally different tract of land, but was sold by the father and
guardian fraudulently before his daughter and ward became of
age, involving litigation, which lasted for more than five years.
It would be futile to follow the ramifications of the different
suits, each only adding to the confusion. During this time, the
mental strain was enough to try a sound brain. Thomas was
foully shot and nearly murdered by a sheriff, while standing un¬
armed, with his hands over his heart. The shot took effect in his
hand, which saved his life. His sister, Mary, harrassed and worn
out, died, leaving him stranded in his old age, robbed of every¬
thing, no means of support, and with no confidence in man.

A most exhaustive review of this celebrated case was pub¬
lished some years ago by a member of the Frankfort, Kentucky,
bar. From his conclusion the following is quoted: “We desire
to say here at the outset of this brief history that we have as

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high a respect, as profound a reverence for the Court of Appeals,
Kentucky’s court of the last resort, as any man living. That
august tribunal represents the supreme enthroned majesty of all
the people of this broad commonwealth, and should be honored
and revered as their ever-pure and unpolluted fountain of justice
and equity. But we can not at the same time be unmindful' of the
fact that the constituent members of that court, like all human
characters, however perfect in integrity, however honest in in¬
tentions, are liable to err in their judgment, and after a full and
deliberate investigation, we are constrained to take our stand
with those prominent members of the bar who believe that in this
case they did err, and while perhaps sticking too close to the
technicalities of the law and precedent, did violate the eternal
principles of justice and fair play between man and man, in re¬
fusing to grant any compensation or relief whatever to Thomas
Buford and his sister for the large sum of money, over $20,000,
they had paid for the land, while at the same time giving the
land back intact to the vendor, who at the time of the sale, and
for many years afterward, was unable to make a valid title.

“For example, in their last decision, while referring to and
virtually admitting the extreme hardship of their decision as it
would affect Buford, they proceeded to declare that the “hard¬
ship” of that decision would be equally great on the other side, if
given in favor of Buford, and it would involve the lives and for¬
tunes of a widow and several helpless children, the main reason
for saddling all the hardship on Buford seeming to be that he was
a man, while his antagonists in the suit were a woman and her
young children. Now, just here it would occur to the common
mind, not too much burdened with written laws and musty prece¬
dents, that a more just and equitable solution of the question
ought to have suggested itself to the court, as it does to most out¬
siders, and in propriety of an equal division between the two sets
of litigants, some of the best lawyers and jurists in Kentucky

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think that even this would have fallen far short of full justice to
Buford.

“The confirmatory deeds made five and a half years after
the first sale of the land, referred for boundary to the first deeds,
neither of which covered one foot of the land pretended to be con¬
veyed as aforesaid. Hence, even after the confirmation deeds,
the title passed to the Bufords was no better than it was in the be¬
ginning.

“How the learned judges of the Court of Appeals could have
overlooked, or ignored utterly, as they seemed to have done, this
startling, decisive, and perfectly unanswerable point in favor of
Buford’s cause, passes all understanding. Those judges, how¬
ever, it might be remembered, have a perfect multitude of causes
constantly before them, all pressing for immediate decision, and
it is but reasonable to suppose, judges being human, after all,
that they may sometimes overlook, or fail to give due weight to,
the leading and controlling points in a case, whether of law or
of fact. At any rate, something of the kind seems to have hap¬
pened in this case. Any one can easily understand what must

have been the effect of such a protracted case of warmly-con-

tested litigation on a mind constituted, or rather hereditarily
and chronically disorganized, like that of Thomas Buford.

“All that he and his beloved sister possessed in the world
had been invested in that four hundred and twenty-acre tract of
land, with a defective title, a circumstance well known in the
neighborhood at the time of the purchase, but not yet known to
the purchasers, who were perfect strangers in that part of the
country, and the vendors, availing themselves of the ensuing
‘hard times’ and shrinkage of values to repossess themselves of
the whole tract, in satisfaction of a judgment and execution for
the last two notes, of only $6,250 each, while at the same time
holding on to the $22,500 paid by the Bufords, thus taking away
from the devisees of Mary Buford, and especially from Thomas
Buford, their only means of support in the evening of their days,

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now considerably advanced. For this, in brief, is a true state¬
ment of the whole case. To the common understanding, unen¬
lightened or we should better say, unwarped by the absurdities of
legal lore, this may be good law, but certainly it does not look like
justice or equity. Buford looked upon it and called it, when first
adverse decision was rendered, ‘downright robbery.’ Whether
this was said in a lucid interval or not, there were many who, be¬
ing acquainted with the peculiar hardship of the case, were dis¬
posed, at the time, to cover the remark with the mantle of charity,
while others indorsed it as fully warranted by the facts.

“Buford seemed never to have the least doubt of his final
success, believing that he had not only ‘the law and the testimony,’
but all ‘the moral equities,’ on his side, and, when any other re¬
sult was suggested, or even hinted at in his presence, it seemed to
unhinge utterly a mind never at any time well geared, and he
would give utterance to his maddened feelings in language of in¬
sane violence ; for the sum involved, about $25,000, was not only a
large one, but outside of it he possessed not one cent in the world.
Up to the very last, however, Buford had hoped and believed, as
he had a right to, that the court of last resort in his native state
would do him the justice to order the repayment to him and his
sister’s devisees of the $22,000, his and their all, which had been
taken from them by parties for a house and land to which they
could not or would not, at that time, nor for many years after¬
ward, if indeed, they ever could, make any valid title ; and when
the final, cruel disappointment came, the blow was crushing, des¬
perate, murderous. It overthrew his chronically-jangled reason
utterly, and from that time forward until the terrible tragedy of
March 26, 1879, which fell upon the community like a double-
shotted thunder clap out of a clear sky, he was a wholly irre¬
sponsible being.

“When one of the honored judges of our Court of Appeals,
the supreme court of Kentucky, was shot down on the street of
the capital, apparently in cold blood, by a defeated litigant in that

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court, Thomas Buford, whose bloody deed seemed at the first
blush to present all the characteristics of a deliberately-planned
assassination, a thrill of intense horror and indignation flashed
through the entire state, extending all over the republic, and ulti¬
mately to the remotest borders of civilization, wherever the
intelligence was borne on the wings of the telegraph and the news¬
paper press.

“This was natural, in view of The divinity that doth hedge’
a pure and upright judiciary in all free and enlightened countries,
and it was natural, too, that, in the city where the terrible deed
was done, the indignation of men should mount to an almost un¬
controllable pitch of intensity, and for a time threaten mob vio¬
lence to the perpetrator of so unparalleled a deed of deadly vio¬
lence.

“To say that Thomas Buford was not insane when he com¬
mitted so fearful a deed of death, so atrocious a crime, that is,
would have been so, if done by 3 sane man of education and re¬
finement, is to place humanity, civilized and enlightened human¬
ity, on a lower level than has ever yet been assigned to it by the
most cynical. His whole conduct, as well before the homicide as
afterward, was that of a lunatic, with, of course, occasional lucid
intervals, occasional glimpses of that gallant, truthful spirit, that
fearless, chivalric old pioneer blood which flowed in his veins.

“Who, for illustration, that knew Thomas Buford in his
lucid intervals, before the lawsuit began to go against him, and
has heard him uniformly give utterance to sentiments character¬
istic of a noble, true-hearted, chivalrous gentleman ; heard him de¬
nounce wrong and cruelty in all their forms, and especially the
unutterably vile and unpardonable meanness of the assassin, who
takes every advantage of his enemy, or object of his hatred, to
perpetrate a hideous crime; who, we say, that knew Thomas
Buford’s real self, and when not completely metamorphosed by
his terrible infirmity, can doubt for one moment that he was hope¬
lessly insane, utterly non compos mentis , when he killed a judge

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of the Court of Appeals, one with whom he had ever been on
friendly terms, and one, too, who professed to have acted as his
best friend in that high tribunal ?”

To his family, to his friends, and, perhaps, to his enemies,
this statement may seem unnecessary; they know that his life
was one long, hopeless, unending struggle with the demon, which
was to conquer in the end. But to his kinsmen, who have perhaps
heard few of the facts, it is submitted, with the hope that they
may at least judge fairly and with charity.

Many stronger, better balanced minds than Thomas Buford’s
would have given away under such a strain ; it is not given to us
all to feel intensely our wrongs. A jury of his fellow-citizens
most righteously adjudged him insane. He lived but a few years
after the tragedy, and died quietly, without realizing what he
had done.

8. GEORGE HENRY, son of William and Frances W. K.
Buford, married, August 9, 1858, Sarah Fulton. No children.
George Henry Buford died February 2, 1887.

7. JUDITH, daughter of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley
Buford, married Mr. Rodgers, Glasgow, Kentucky. No children.

7. MAJOR SIMEON, JR., son of Simeon and Margaret
Kirtley Buford, married, January 12, 1806, Elizabeth Twyman,
born Augcst 6, 1789. She was a daughter of Joel Twyman, who
married Margaret, daughter of William Buford, of Woodford
County, Kentucky, and George Twyman, who married Eliza
Crutcher; see below. Children — Manville Twyman, born May 15,
1807, died December 24, 1865; LeGrand Griffin, May 20, 1808,
died January 18, 1863; Adaline A. B., July 27, 1809; Al¬
mira Margaretta, September 1, 1813 ; Elizabeth Gabriella, March
6, 1815. Simeon Buford, Jr., died February 9, 1857. Elizabeth
Twyman Buford died February 7, 1877.

8. MANVILLE TWYMAN, son of Simeon, Jr., and Eliza¬
beth Twyman Buford, married, November 23, 1832, near Leba¬
non, Kentucky, Elizabeth Shelby, a great-niece of Governor Isaac

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Shelby, of Kentucky. Children — Brittania A., born Februaiy 7,
1837; Travis W., October 1, 1847; Emma W., October 1, 1852:
Helen L., July 14, 1855; Napoleon Cadmus, December 15, 1858.
Manville T. moved to Missouri in 1834, settled near Waverly,
Lafayette County, where he died December 24, 1885. Elizabeth
S. Buford died August 20, 1889.

9. BRITTANIA A., daughter of Manville T. and Elizabeth
Shelby Buford, married Benjamin G. Chinn, son of Dr. J. G.
Chinn, of Lexington, Kentucky. Children — Manville J. Chinn,
born January 18, 1860; Benjamin G. Chinn, died January 11,
1884, age fifty-seven years, residence Kansas City, Missouri.

10. MANVILLE J., son of Benjamin J. and Brittania B.
Chinn, married, June 6, 1880, Mary A. Webb. Children — Man¬
ville J., Jr., born July 29, 1883 ; William Webb, May 7, 1890 ; Ben¬
jamin Graves, November 15, 1892.

11. MANVILLE J., JR., married Lucile Carter, of Kansas
City, Missouri. Children — Mildred and Lester.

11. BENJAMIN G. CHINN, JR., married Mary Duke, of
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

9. TRAVIS W., son of Manville T. and Elizabeth Shelby
Buford, married, in 1865, Alice B. Shelby. Child — William B.,
born December 20, 1867. Alice Shelby Buford died and Travis
W. Buford married, for second wife, Martha E. Gordon, Novem¬
ber 18, 1873. Children — Lynn Gordon, born August 21, 1874,
and Manville Twyman, Jr., March 2, 1876.

10. WILLIAM B., son of Travis W. and Alice Shelby Bu¬
ford, married Julia Milmot, September 26, 1888. Child — Travis,
July 14, 1887.

10. LYNN GORDON, son of Travis W. and Martha Gordon
Buford, married Mary Lewis Gosnell of Independence, Missouri,
November 20, 1901.

10. MANVILLE T. BUFORD, JR., married Annie Worth¬
ington, of Lexington, Missouri. They have four children.

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9. EMMA W., daughter of Manville T. and Elizabeth Shel¬
by Buford, mariied Grundy Young, of Lexington, Kentucky, Feb¬
ruary 16, 1869. Children— Brittania E., born December 6, 1869;
Buford Grundy, May 5, 1871; Frances A., January 6, 1874;
Aubrey Russell, February 20, 1867 ; Elizabeth G., April 19, 1878;
Benjamin Chinn, November 28, 1880; Anabell, June 14, 1883;
Edna E., December 25, 1887, Kansas City, Missouri.

10. BRITTANNIE E., daughter of Emma W. Buford and
Grundy Young, married W. Ballentine, of Kansas City, Missouri.

10. FRANCES A., daughter of Emma W. Buford and
Grundy Young, married Frank G. Smith, of Kansas City, Mis¬
souri.

10. ELIZABETH G., daughter of Emma W. Buford and
Grundy Young, married John A. Funk, of Burlington, Iowa.
One child — Helen Funk.

10. ANABEL, daughter of Emma W. Buford and Grundy
Young, married Alfred U. Affitt, of Nashville, Tennessee.

10. EDNA E., daughter of Emma W. Buford and Grundy
Young, married Gustave Vasen, of Quincy, Illinois. Son — Gus¬
tave Vasen, Jr.

9. HELEN L., daughter of Manville T. and Elizabeth Shel¬
by Buford, married David Davis, August, 1871. Children — Dud¬
ley J., Eugene T., George Tilden, Wood and Thomas.

10. Dudley J. Davis, married Gabriella Lewis.

10. George Tilden Davis mariied Georgia Sdallwood, of
Waverly, Missouri. They have two children — Jack Shewalter
and Cleatha Davis.

10. WOOD DAVIS married Blanche Dungan.

9. NAPOLEON CADMUS, son of Manville T., and Eliza¬
beth Shelby Buford, married Sallie T. Young, December 17, 1879.
Children — Twyman M., born August 9, 1881 ; Shelby Young, July
19, 1882; Elizabeth E., September 15, 1883; Evan, February It,
1886; Lillian S., September 15, 1888.

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10. TWYMAN M., son of Napoleon Cadmus and Sallie
Young Buford, married and has two small children.

10. EVAN married and has two small boys — Cadmus Bu¬
ford, Jr., and Shelby Buford, Jr.

10. LILLIAN S. married, first, Ellsworth and had one son,
James Buford Ellsworth; married, as second husband, Charles
Miller. They have no children.

8. LEGRAND GRIFFIN, son of Simeon, Jr., and Elizabeth
Twyman Buford, married Eusebia Neville Mallory, December 18,
1838, who was born November 19, 1816, in Rockingham County,
Virginia. Her family settled in Lafayette County, Missouri, in
1836. Legrand G. Buford went with his father from Frankfon,
Kentucky, to that county in 1834. Children — Seven, of whom
three are now living (1903), William, Legrand Griffin, Jr., and
Florence. Legrand Griffin, Sr., died January 18, 1863, and
Eusebia Buford died December 22, 1894. Ora Chinn Buford died
December 18, 1875.

9. LEGRAND G., JR., son of Legrand and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford, married Ora Chinn, of Lexington, Kentucky, February 14,
1871, who was a granddaughter of Dr. J. G. Chinn. Children —
Coleman G. and Florence, Eldorado Springs, Missouri.

10. FLORENCE, daughter of Legrand G., Jr., and Ora
Chinn Buford, married Dr. W. R. Eckles. Children — Louis Cole¬
man and a daughter, Nerville, Eldorado Springs, Missouri.

9. FLORENCE, daughter of Legrand G. and Eusebia Bu¬
ford, married Dr. S. M. Banks, November 25, 1876. Children —
Samuel G., born 1877 ; Ora Lillian, 1881, Columbia, Missouri.

8. ADALINE A. B., daughter of Simeon, Jr., and Elizabeth
Twyman Buford, married John S. Nowlin. Children — Lucy
Townsend and Buford S.

9. LUCY TOWNSEND, daughter of John S. and Adaline
Buford Nowlin, married W. B. Twyman, son of Joel and Mar¬
garet Buford Twyman (see William and Frances above).

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9. BUFORD S., son of John S. and Adaline Buford Nowlin,
married Elizabeth H. Twyman, daughter of Joel and Margaret
Buford Twyman (see William and Frances, above).

8. ALMIRA MARGARETTE GRIFFIN, daughter of
Simeon, Jr., and Elizabeth Twyman Buford, married John V.
Webb, March 17, 1831, near Versailles, Kentucky, who was born
September 16, 1796, near Georgetown, Kentucky. Children —
John Simeon, born June 5, 1833; Buford T., March 31, 1835;
Willis Woodward, June 7, 1837, died July 15, 1841; Elizabeth
Margarette Griffin, December 23, 1839; William Manville, May
6, 1842; Lucy Woodward, August 16, 1844, died September 10,
1844, Waverly, Missouri.

Captain John V. Webb died March 31, 1881. Almira Mar-
garetta Buford Webb died August 21, 1844.

9. JOHN SIMEON, son of John V. and Almira Margaretta
Buford Webb, married, February 6, 1861, Lucy J. Webb. Chil¬
dren — Jennie Howard, born November 1, 1861 ; Margaret Grif¬
fin, January 31, 1864, died March, 1864 ; Mary Edward, February
19, 1867; John Woodward, June 19, 1869; Maurice Langhorne,
October 9, 1872; Frances Vivian, January 31, 1875; Daisy Caro¬
line Vernon, May 17, 1878.

10. JENNIE HOWARD, daughter of John S. and Lucy J.
Webb, married, October 23, 1888, H. L. Tucker.

10. MARY EDWARD, daughter of John S. and Lucy J.
Webb, married, October 14, 1891, Marshall Clifton Field.

9. BUFORD T., son of John V. and Almira Margaretta Bu¬
ford Webb, married, June 5, 1860, Marcellena R. Brasher. Child
— Dixie Lee, born June 7, 1861, died December 8, 1862.

9. ELIZABETH MARGARETTA, daughter of John V. and
Almira Margaretta Buford Webb, married, July 30, 1857, John
Donaldson. Children — Margaret, born April 30, 1858; Mary
Elizabeth, February 19, 1860, died September 16, 1869 ; Willie
Woodward, September 2, 1861. Elizabeth Margaretta Webb
Donaldson died March 8, 1879.

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10. MARGARET (Pinkie), daughter of John and Eliza¬
beth Webb Donaldson, married, April 18, 1877, George S. Mc-
Grew. Child — Bettie Myrtle, born October 30, 1878.

10. WILLIE WOODWARD, daughter of John and Eliza¬
beth. W. Donaldson, married, May 30, 1882, Buford Chinn. Mrs.
Willie W. D. Chinn died at Lexington, Missouri.

9. WILLIAM MANVILLE, son of John V. and Almira
Margaretta Buford Webb, married, December 20, 1867, Mary
Susan Thomas.

8. ELIZABETH GABRIELLA, daughter of Major Simeon,
Jr., and Elizabeth Twyman Buford, married Judge John S. Ry-
land, September 29, 1835, who was born November 2, 1797, in
Virginia. Residence, Lafayette County, Missouri. Children —
Elizabeth T., Simeon B., May (died), Rosanna M., Gabriella, Xen¬
ophon, Manville C., Margaret, Carrie G., Catherine Ianthe
(died), Richard (died), Joseph Addison (died). Judge John S.

Ryland died September 10, 1873. Elizabeth Gabriella B. Ryland
died March 19, 1884.

9. ELIZABETH TWYMAN, oldest daughter of Judge John
F. and Elizabeth G. Ryland, born September 6, 1836, married
James T. W. McKean of Lexington, Missouri, March, 1868.

10. GERTRUDE, second daughter of James T. W. and Eliz-
azeth Ryland McKean, born November 3, 1875, married David
Dinwiddie Gwinner, born February 10, 1869. Children — Eliza¬
beth Ann, married W. Marvin Richards, Herington, Kansas;
James Warrin, married Mary Elizabeth Catron, April 11, 1921,
died July 8, 1923 ; George Myron, Robert Arthur, Gertrude Ernes¬
tine, Mary Dorothy, Ard Mathew and Harriet Shields. Home,
Lexington, Missouri.

7. SARAH, daughter of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Bu¬
ford, married John H. Baker, of Glasgow, Kentucky; had no chil¬
dren, but adopted and raised Giles Yore Buford, son of George
Washington Buford (see below). John H. and Sarah Buford
Baker were buried at “Tree Hill,” Woodford County, Kentucky,
residence of William Buford.

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7. MARY, daughter of Simeon and Margaret K. Buford,
married Henry Crutcher. Children — Albert, James, Henry,
Thomas, George, Eliza, Mary and Margaretta. Mary Buford
Crutcher died June 30, 1868.

8. ALBERT, son of Henry and Mary Buford Crutcher,
married, for first wife, Miss Mussel ; for second wife, Polly Ann
Fields. Albert Crutcher died April 21, 1884, age seventy-five.

8. JAMES, son of Henry and Mary Buford Crutcher, mar¬
ried Mary Hord.

8. HENRY, JR., son of Henry and Mary Buford Crutcher,
married Mary Baber.

8. THOMAS, son of Henry and Mary Buford Crutcher,
married Davidella Tomkins.

8. ELIZA, daughter of Henry and Mary B. Crutcher, mar¬
ried George Twyman. They had four sons and one daughter,
Mary Ann.

9. MARY ANN, daughter of George and Eliza Crutcher
Twyman, married Mr. Davis and is living at Harrodsburg, Ken¬
tucky. They had ten children. Mr. Davis and two of their sons
were killed by the Thompsons, at Nicholasville, Kentucky.

8. MARY, daughter of Henry and Mary Buford Crutcher,
married Thomas J. Helm.

8. MARGARETTE, daughter of Henry and Mary Bufora
Crutcher, married Josiah McDowell and is living in Louisville,
Kentucky.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of Simeon and Margaret Kirt-
ley Buford, married John T. Chambers, November 14, 1811.
Daughter — Margaret, born January 18, 1815, died August 17,
1829. John T. Chambers died May 16, 1815. Elizabeth mar¬
ried, for second husband, George W. Trabue, January 15, 1820,
who was born February 22, 1793. Children — Joseph B., born De¬
cember 22, 1820; Benjamin F, October 6, 1822; Helen, November
16, 1824; Elizabeth D, May 31, 1835; George W., Jr., January 21,
1839. Elizabeth Buford Trabue died August 30, 1869.

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8. JOSEPH B., son of George W. and Elizabeth Buford
Trabue, married Judith Mullins and died March 27, 1845.

8. BENJAMIN F., son of George W. and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford Trabue, married Lelia Anderson. Children — Henry, mar¬
ried Rose Drane; Kate, married J. M. Rodgers; Helen, married
Jeremiah Leslie; Bennora, married A. P. Terrill.

8. HELEN, daughter of George W. and Elizabeth Buford
Trabue, married William Terry and died December 2, 1893.

8. ELIZABETH DUPUY, daughter of George W. and Eliz¬
abeth Buford Trabue, married S. W. Van Culin.

8. GEORGE W., JR., son of George W. and Elizabeth Bu¬
ford Trabue, married Mary T. Wade and died April 29, 1869.

TRABUE

1. Antony died at Mannikin, Virginia, in 1724, age fifty-six.

Sons — Antony, Jacob and John James.

2. John James, the third son of Antony, married Olymphia Du-
puy. Children — Eight sons and seven daughters.

3. Edward, the sixth son of John James and Olympia D. Tra-
bue, of Woodford County, Kentucky, married, first, L. M. (Patsy)
Haskins; for his second wife, Jane Clay.

4. George W., fourth son of Edward, married Elizabeth Cham¬
bers (born Buford).

DUPUY

Olymphia was the daughter of John James and Susan Levillian
Dupuy, who had six children. John James Dupuy was the third son
of Bartholomew and Susanne (Levillon) Dupuy.

7. ELIJAH, son of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Buford,
married, April 16, 1816, Mary Depp, who was born December 5,
1799, in Barren County, Kentucky. Children — Simeon E., born
March 30, 1817, in Barren County, Kentucky; William, August,
1819, died in infancy; John, December 24, 1820; Robert McCoy,
September 28, 1825; Haywood, January 18, 1827; Margaret,
January 16, 1837 ; Elizabeth W., December 24, 1835, died Octo-

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bdr, 1837; Elijah, Jr., Sept. 13, 1836, died Sept. 24, 1836.
Elijah Buford died September 7, 1836; Mary Depp Buford, his
wife, died September 24, 1836. He came to Mississippi County,
Arkansas, in 1826, and was the first white settler in that place;
was afterwards Indian commissioner and mail contractor,, and
for the time was very wealthy.

8. SIMEON E., son of Elijah and Mary Depp Buford, mar¬
ried, April 22, 1840, Mary Ann Fields, who was born in Marl¬
borough District, South Carolina, April 6, 1817. Son — Charlis
Allison, born November 24, 1849, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Simeon E. Buford died at Summitt, Mississippi, September 11,
1876; his wife, Mary A. Fields, died at Grand Bay, Mobile, Ala¬
bama, January 11, 1883.

9. CHARLIS A., son of Simeon E. and Mary A. Fields Bu¬
ford, married, July 22, 1873, Charlottie Jarvis Seymour, daugh¬
ter of Samuel J. and Mary A. Partridge Seymour, who was born
at Buffalo, New York, October 23, 1850. Children — Fredrick
Seymour, born July 25, 1874, in New Orleans, Louisiana; Jean¬
nette Benedict, November 2, 1876, in Summitt, Mississippi; Anna
Laura, August 17, 1879, in Coupee Parish, Louisiana; Charlis
Allison, Jr., December 3, 1882, in Grand Bay, Mobile, Alabama;
Lottie Lee, July 9, 1884, at Rock Port Texas; Mary Ethel, Sep¬
tember 16, 1889, at San Antonio, Texas; Maud Florence, January
13, 1892, died May 22, 1893.

10. FREDRICK SEYMOUR, son of Charlis A. and Char¬
lottie J. Seymour Buford, married, April 10, 1907, Bennie
Meadows, at Jacksboro, Texas., who was born June 18, 1887, in
Bonham, Texas. Children — Fredrick S., Jr., born October 10,
1909, in Dallas, Texas; Dorothy Frances, May 29, 1911; John T.,
April 24, 1913 ; William Meadows, June 7, 1916.

10. LOTTIE LEE, daughter of Charlis A. and Charlottie
J. Seymour Buford, married, December 29, 1915, Dwight Hall
Ingram, in Dallas, Texas. Son — Charlis Buford, born January
10, 1920.

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10. MARY ETHEL, daughter of Charlis A. and Charlottie
J. S. Buford, married, December 22, 1917, Barfield.

8. JOHN, son of Elijah and Mary Depp Buford, married,
April 19, 1846, Eliza Stringer, who was born in 1824, in New
Orleans, Louisiana. Children — Robert T., born December 26,
1846, and died in August, 1853; Mary C., May 8, 1851; Corinne,
August, 1853, died young; Elizabeth, April 29, 1856; Elijah 3d,
August 23, 1858, at Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

8. HAYWOOD, son of Elijah and Mary Depp Buford, mar¬
ried, April 11, 1846, Amanda J. Depp, of Barren County, Ken¬
tucky. Children — Mary Elizabeth, born January 25, 1847 ; Mar¬
garet Ann, July 27, 1849; Sylvesta Haywood, September 19,
1853, in Gretna, Louisiana; Amanda Jane, 1856, in Mobile, Ala¬
bama; Simeon E., September 16, 1859, died September 14, 1876;
Annabel, April 11, 1863; Benjamin Forrest, May 1, 1865, never
married; John O’Connell, April 27, 1869, died October 16, 1879.
Haywood Buford lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Mobile,
Alabama; served throughout the war in the Confederate States
Army; received a severe wound in battle, from which he never
recovered, and died August 7, 1881.

9. ROBERT, son of John and Eliza S. Buford, married and
had one son, John.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of John and Eliza S. Buford,
married Mr. Picket.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Haywood and
Amanda Depp Buford, married R. C. Brashear, November 27,
1866. Child — Rosebud, born March 24, 1871. R. C. Brashear
died August 17, 1871, and Mary Elizabeth, married, for second
husband, D. B. Hoopes, August 27, 1874, at Biloxi, Miss. She
died July 20, 1897, Mobile, Alabama.

10. ROSEBUD, daughter of R. C. and Mary Elizabeth
Brashear, married Oscar D. Williamson, October 24, 1886. Chil¬
dren — Mary Ruby, born February 9, 1888; Don Hoopes, April 6,
1891, and Cecilia Olivette.

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9. MARGARET ANN, daughter of Haywood and Amanda
D. Buford, married Charles W. Lloyd, October 14, 1878.

9. ANNABEL, daughter of Haywood and Amanda D. Bu¬
ford, married John Burrett, May 6, 1877. Child — Lottie May.
born April 16, 1879. Burrett is supposed to have been killed by
the Indians in Texas. Annabel Burrett married Joseph Williams,
May 2, 1888. Children — Royal Haywood, born February 5, 1889 ;
Joseph S., January 14, 1893; Benjamin Buford, May 20, 1895.

7. GEORGE WASHINGTON, son of Simeon and Margaret
Kirtley Buford, married, first, Miss Yore. One child — Giles
Yore, born March 7, 1827. His wife died in 1831, and George
W. Buford married, January 6, 1835, Maria Winfree, of the
Parish of Iberville, Louisiana. Children — John Baker, born
March 20, 1836, died December 8, 1837 ; William Winfree, Sep¬
tember 17, 1838; Sarah Winfree, August 27, 1840, died October
16, 1841 ; Margaret, April 27, 1843.

George Washington Buford was appointed to West Point in
1820. Whether he graduated or not is not known, probably not.
He was, however, in the United States Army and stationed at
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. Some years afterwards he re¬
signed and went to Milliken’s Bend, Arkansas, on the Mississippi
River, thence to Louisiana, thence to Alabama, and died at Glas¬
gow, Kentucky, August 20, 1870.

8. GILES YORE, son of George Washington and -

Yore Buford, married Amanda Jones, November 18, 1847, who
was born October 22, 1827. Children — John, born August 2,
1848, died September 9, 1848; Sarah Elizabeth, September 15,
1849; Margaret, October 8, 1853, died September 21, 1858 ; James
Clement, August 24, 1856, died July 28, 1878; Martha Davis, Sep¬
tember 11, 1859; Ora, February 1, 1862; George Washington 2d,
February 17, 1865, died January 25, 1883.

Giles Yore Buford died August 3, 1876. Amanda Jones
Buford died July 25, 1895.

9. SARAH ELIZABETH, daughter of Giles Yore and

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Amanda Jones Buford, married, May 12, 1875, W. P. Brett.
Children — Anna M., born May 15, 1875; Giles Buford, January
27, 1878, died August 9, 1880. Sarah Elizabeth Brett died De¬
cember 8, 1879.

9. MARTHA DAVIS, daughter of Giles Yore and Amanda
Jones Buford, married, H. L. McCoy. Child — Guy Railton
(died) .

9. ORA, daughter of Giles Yore and Amanda Jones Buford,
married, February 1, 1887, W. H. Grove. Ora Buford Grove died
October 17, 1893.

8. WILLIAM WINFREE, son of George W. and Maria
Winfree Buford, married Rhoda Sharp, and had five children,
all of whom died young. He lives at Donaldsonville, Louisiana.

8. MARGARET, daughter of George W. and Maria W.
Buford, married, first, George Steely. Children — Margaret and
Thomas. Margaret married, for second husband, Albert Dyes.

7. THOMAS, son of Simeon and Margaret Kirtley Buford,
married, in 1822, Amanda Savage, in Barren County, Kentucky,
where he lived until 1836, when he moved to Demopolis, Ala¬
bama. Children — William, born in 1823, died in 1843; Margaret,
in 1825; Simeon, in 1827 ; Thomas, Jr., in 1829 (died) ; Amanda,
in 1832, died in 1837 ; Martha, in 1834, died in 1837 ; John C., in
1836; Fannie, in 1841; Mary W., in 1848. Amanda S. Buford
died in Mobile, in 1855. Thomas married a second wife. No
children.

Thomas Buford died in Mobile in 1866.

8. MARGARET, daughter of Thomas and Amanda Buford,
married, first, Mr. Christian, and for second husband, Mr.
Branch.

8. SIMEON, son of Thomas and Amanda S. Buford, mar¬
ried, in 1857, and had children — Fannie, born in 1858; Ida B., in
1860; Inez B., in 1862; Louise, in 1864; Simeon S., in 1867.

9. FANNIE, daughter of Simeon, married S. N. Andrews
mid died without issue, in 1886. S. N. Andrews died in 1883.

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9. IDA B., daughter of Simeon, married R. H. Marsh and
had seven children, all living. Residence, Dickerson, Tennessee.

9. INEZ B., daughter of Simeon, married John W. Baker.
No children.

9. LOUISE, daughter of Simeon, married G. F. Early.
Three children, all living.

9. SIMEON S., son of Simeon, married Miss Cuniff. No
children.

BUFORD

CHAPTER XIII

5. ELIZABETH BEAUFORD AND JEREMIAH EARLY.

5. SARAH BEAUFORD AND MR. WISDOM.

5. MARY BEAUFORD AND GEORGE LEE.

5. ANN BEAUFORD AND THOMAS DUCKWORTH.

5. ELIZBETH, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth
Beauford, of Middlesex County, Virginia, married, October 16,
1728, Jeremiah Early, Sr., born December, 1705 (son of Thomas
and Elizabeth Early, his wife, who died July 6, 1716). Children —
John, born July 3, 1729; Jeremiah, Jr., in 1730; Jacobus, Joel
and Joshua, June 13, 1738.

6. JEREMIAH, JR., son of Jeremiah, Sr., and Elizabeth

Beauford Early, married, first, Sarah - . Children — Jacob,

born in 1750, married Elizabeth Robeson, March 18, 1769;
Judith, in 1752 married, first John Pate and had a son John;
married, second, Charles Calloway, and had eleven children.
Their fourth child, Sarah, married John Anderson and had nine
children, the fifth of whom, Martha Jane, married Captain John
Franklin and had twelve children. James the fifth child, lived in
Lynchburg, Virginia; Jeremiah, in 1754; Joseph, in 1756; John,
in 1757; Elizabeth, in 1759; Jenny, in 1761; Jeffry, in 1762;
Jubal, in 1764; Sarah, in 1766 (married William Anderson,
brother of John, above, who married Sarah Calloway) ; Abner,
in 1768. Sarah Early, died, and Jeremiah, Jr., married, second
wife, Mary Stith, December 23, 1773. No issue.

Colonel Jeremiah, Jr., went from Lancaster County to Cul¬
peper County, and then to Bedford County. His will is recorded
in the last county, dated July 29, 1779, probated September, 1779.
There is also on file there a deed dated 1765, signed by him and
his wife, Sarah, and among the marriage bonds, a license, dated
December 23, 1773, for the marriage of Jeremiah Early and Mary
Stith. In his will he mentions his children, as above, and provides
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for his wife, Mary. He served in the French and Indian Wars,
and was a colonel, early in the Revolution, in Bedford County,
Virginia.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah, Jr., and
Sarah Early, married September 22, 1777, to Colonel James
Calloway, of Bedford County, who was born December 21, 1736.
She was his second wife. By his first wife he had twelve
children. He was a son of Colonel William Calloway, the founder
of New London County; lieutenant during the French and Indian
wars, married Elizabeth Tilly. Their other son, Colonel Richard
Calloway, born about 1719, went to Kentucky several times, and
finally settled there in 1775. His two daughters, Elizabeth and
Frances, with Jemima Boone, were captured by the Indians July
14, 1776, and retaken by Boone the next day. This incident is
made use of by Cooper in the “Last of the Mohicans.” Colonel
Richard was killed by the Indians, near Boonesborough, March 8,
1780. Colonel James served in the French and Indian wars,
built the first iron works above Lynchburg, and also owned and
operated lead mines. He died near New London, Campbell
County, November 1, 1809. By his second wife he had nine
children.

8. DR. GEORGE CALLOWAY, son of Colonel James and
Elizabeth E. Calloway, married, April 11, 1811, Mary Elizabeth
Cabell, born December 3, 1791. They lived first, at Lynchburg,
on the estate inherited by his father; sold out there, and about
1818, moved to Nelson County; afterwards lived at “Colleton”
and “Glenmore.” Children — William James, born in 1812, died
in 1813; George, December 1, 1813, died January 1, 1839; Paul
Carrington; Ann Eliza, 1817, died in 1832; Sarah Cabell, Novem¬
ber 20, 1820; Elvira Henry, January 13, 1822, died May 28, 1846.

9. PAUL CARRINGTON, son of Dr. George and Mary
Elizabeth Calloway, married, March 16, 1842, Addisonia,
daughter of Nathaniel Manson, of Bedford County, Virginia, who
was the son of Peter Manson of Dinwiddie, and his wife, Lucy

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Clayton, grandaughter of John Clayton, the botanist. Dr. Paul
practiced medicine in Nelson County from 1835 to his death in
May, 1876. Addisonia Manson Calloway died in 1892. Children
— Eliza Cabell, born February 23, 1844; Mary Lee, Sarah Brown,
February 1, 1850, and George Carrington, June 1, 1853.

10. ELIZA CABELL, daughter of Dr. Paul C. and Addi¬
sonia Manson Calloway, married, January 10, 1865, William B.
Hubbard, of Brackingham County, son of Robert T. and Susan
Balling Hubard. She was a daughter of Linnatus, son of Robert
Balling, of Chillowe. Children — Paul Carrington, Eliza Callo¬
way, Susan Markham, Addie, Louis and Anna. William B. Hub¬
ard died in 1884.

11. SUSAN MARKHAM, daughter of William B. and
Eliza C. Hubard, married, November 3, 1890, Rev. George S.
Somerville. Child — Churchill Knox.

10. SARAH BROWN, daughter of Dr. Paul C. and Addi¬
sonia Manson Calloway, married, September 17, 1874, F. Key
Meade, of Clark County, a grandson of Bishop William Meade.
She died November 20, 1884. Children — Addie Carrington,
Francis Key (appointed to West Point in 1894) , Paul Carrington,
William Page and Everard Kidder.

10. GEORGE CARRINGTON, son of Dr. Paul C. and Ad¬
disonia Manson Calloway, married, June 30, 1880, Martha Waller
Aylett, daughter of Colonel William R. Aylett of King William
County. Children — Alice Aylett, George Carrington, and Wil¬
liam R. Aylett.

9. SARAH CABELL, daughter of Dr. George and Mary
Elizabeth Calloway, married at “Glenmore,” April 6, 1842, Rob¬
ert Lawrence Brown, who was born March 9, 1820. Children —
Alexander, born September 15, 1843; George Mayo, died young;
Elora, died young; Sarah Cabell Brown, died July 25, 1849.

10. ALEXANDER, son of Robert L. and Sarah C. Brown,
married, first, December 17, 1873, Caroline Augusta Cabell, born
June 4, 1854, died July 31, 1876; married, second, April 26, 1886,

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Sarah Randolph Cabell, born October 2, 1848, daughter of Mayo
Cabell and his second wife, Caroline Anthony. They reside at
Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia. He is the author of “The
Genesis of the United States,” “The Cabells and Their Kin,”
“English Politics in Early Virginia History,” etc. He served in
the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1865, as colonel.

7. JUBAL, son of Colonel Jeremiah, Jr., and Sarah Early,
married and had a son — Joab.

8. COLONEL JOAB, of Franklin County, Virginia, son of
Jubal Early, married Ruth, daughter of Colonel Samuel Hair-
stone and his wife, Judith Saunders. Samuel Hairstone was a
son of Robert, a Scotchman, who emigrated to America, and his
wife, Ruth Stovall. Children — Samuel, Henry and Jubal Ander¬
son. The last was general in the Confederate States Army.

9. SAMUEL, son of Colonel Joab and Ruth Hairstone
Early, married, April 29, 1846, Henry Ann Cabell, born August 2,
1822, died May 31, 1890. He was a captain in the Confederate
States Army and afterwards a colonel.

7. ABNER, son of Jeremiah, Jr., and Sarah Early, mar¬
ried Doshea, daughter of Jacob and Mary Calloway Anderson.
Children — Polly, born January 21, 1792; Jacob, October 19,
1793; Henry T., April 14, 1796, married, in 1821, Peggy Haden;
Sarah A., January 16, 1798, married, March, 1827, Claiborn Por¬
ter; Elizabeth, October 10, 1800, married, in 1822, Abner An¬
thony; Amelia, October 24, 1802; William A., November 11, 1804,
married, March, 1833, May C. Jennings; John Wesley, January
30, 1807; Edmond J., September 5, 1810, married Ann Tardy;
Matilda Jane, February 7, 1814, married, in 1829, W. P. Arnold.

8. JACOB, son of Abner and Doshea A. Early, married,
April 12, 1819, Elizabeth Austin. Children — Jeremiah, born in
1820; John P., i n 1822; Catherine Newton, in 1826; Nicholas, in
1828; Parmens, in 1831; Hilery, in 1834; Doshea, in 1837.

6. JOSHUA, son of Jeremiah, Sr., and Elizabeth B. Early,
married, first, April 26, 1763, Mary, daughter of Augustin Left-

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wich, of Bedford County, Virginia. Children — James, born
March 12, 1765, married November 24, 1785, Sophia Gatewood;
William, November 6, 1766, married October 7, 1793, Susanna
Walker; Joshua, October 6, 1768, married Patsy Strange; Jubal,
April 28, 1770, married, November 1, 1825, Charlotte Scruggs;
Joel, February 27, 1774, married Ava Andrews; Buford, killed in
Bedford County; Polly, August 1, 1777, married James H. L.
Noorman; Thomas, April 6, 1779, married, January 6, 1801,
Susanna Rucker; Jabez, December 6, 1780, married Polly Left-
wick, November 25, 1801; Silas, August 31, 1782; Lucy, April 2,
1784; John, January 1, 1786; Sally Emily, January 26, 1788, mar¬
ried John Ward.

7. JOHN, son of Joshua and Mary L. Early, married, first,
Ann W. Jones. No children. Married, second, Elizabeth Rives.
Children — Mary Virginia, Arville Rives, Thomas Howard, John
Fletcher, Elizabeth Rives and Francis Patterson.

5. SARAH, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth Beau-
ford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1712, married Mr.
Wisdom.

5. MARY, daughter of Thomas Jr., and Elizabeth Beau-
ford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1716, married
George Lee, December 4, 1737, who was born April 26, 1715.
Children — James, born October 6, 1742; Elizabeth, April 6,
1745 ; Mary, April 22, 1747 ; Dorothy, March .31, 1749 ; Rachel and
Esther, May 24, 1754. Esther Lee married William Jeffries, Feb¬
ruary 10, 1770.

LEE

Thomas and Elizabeth Lee. Children — Charles, baptized March

23, 1683-84, married Dorthy - . Children — Charles, born May

30, 1708; John, August 28, 1712; George (above), April 26. 1715;
Charles, February 8, 1718.

5. ANNA, daughter of Thomas, Jr., and Elizabeth Beau-
ford, born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1718, married
Thomas Duckworth, October 4, 1736. Anna Duckworth died
March 19, 1737.

CHAPTER XIV

4. HENRY AND MARY OSBORNE BEAUFORD.

5. WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH OWEN BEAUFORD.

5. HENRY AND FRANCES BEAUFORD.

4. HENRY, SR., son of Thomas and Mary Beauford, of
Lancaster County, Virginia, born in 1684, baptized March 15,
1684, married, September 12, 1707, Mrs. Mary Parsons, widow of
John Parsons and daughter of Henry Osborne. (Henry Osborne
married, first, Mary Simpson, August, 1684. Daughter — Mary,
1685-1687, married John Parsons, September 28, 1704. Henry
Osborne married, second, Alice George, May 15, 1688. Daughter
— Ann, baptized, April 28, 1689.) Children- — William, born June
L7, 1708 ; Henry, Jr., 1710 ; James, 1712 ; Thomas, April 11, 1716 ;
John, February 2, 1718.

Henry Beauford, Sr., died January 16, 1720. His will is
dated January 15, 1720. His personal estate amounted to $3,327,
very large for the time. (Mary Parsons, daughter of Henry and
Mary Osborne Parsons, born in 1705, and step-daughter of Henry
Beauford, Sr., married, April 6, 1730, John Crowdas.)

5. WILLIAM, son of Henry, Sr., and Mary Osborne Beau¬
ford, married, May 17, 1729, Elizabeth Owen. Children — John,
born April 2, 1731; Henry, April 17, 1739; Ann, November 6,
1744; William, Jr., February 1, 1747, Middlesex County, Vir¬
ginia.

6. HENRY, son of William and Elizabeth Owen Beauford,
went to Mecklenburg County, and there died in 1782.

6. WILLIAM, JR., son of William, Sr., and Elizabeth Owen
Beauford, was settling up his estate in Brunswick County in
1762; later he is mentioned in the records of that county as then
being of Onslow County, North Carolina. He was an ensign of
First Troop, North Carolina Dragoons, July 6, 1777, to January
1, 1779. From a letter, dated Orangeburg, South Carolina, No-

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vember 23, 1781, from General Thomas Sumpter to General
Marion, is quoted, “I send you Major Beauford, the bearer hereof,
to wait upon you, in whom you may confide and to whom, I beg
you, give your opinions in such matters as I have directed him to
mention to you.” He was severely wounded at the battle of
Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, September 8, 1781, but survived
the war. He stttled near Gourdin Station, Williamsburg County,
South Carolina, on the Santee River, among the Huguenots. He
married Frances June (Jeune, Juin, Juing). Children — Eliza¬
beth Lucretia, Mary, Frances, William June, Emma Corbet, born
August 12, 1789.

7. ELIZABETH LUCRETIA, daughter of William and
Frances June Buford, married, first, Mr. Couturier. No chil¬
dren. She married, second, Judge John S. Richardson. Child —
John S., Jr.

7. MARY, daughter of William and Frances June Buford,
married Rev. Hugh Fraser. She was his second wife. His first
wife was Miss Porter. Their granddaughter, Jane R., married
Thomas W. Hughes, living at Ashley Bridge, Charleston, South
Carolina.

7. FRANCES, daughter of William and Frances June Bu¬
ford, married, after her sister Mary’s death, Rev. Hugh Fraser.
Daughter — Mrs. Frances B. Alston, Charleston, South Carolina,
who died February 19, 1897.

7. WILLIAM JUNE, son of William and Frances June Bu¬
ford, married Elizabeth Towner, whose first husband was Cho-
vins. No children. He died at his place, “Wetee,” on the Santee
River, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, November 8, 1845,
in his sixtieth year. His wife died at Sumter, February 9, 1869,
in her eighty-seventh year.

7. EMMA CORBET, daughter of William and Frances
June Bedford, married, in 1812, William Gingard Richardson,
born May 22, 1773. Children — Elizabeth, born in 1816, and John

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Manly, March 13, 1831. Emma Corbet Richardson, died Febru¬
ary 5, 1843. William G. Richardson died September 18, 1849.

8. ELIZABETH, daughter of William G. and Emma Cor¬
bet Richardson, married Alcester Garden. Son — Hugh R., living
in New York City, lawyer.

8. JOHN MANLY, son of William G. and Emma Corbet
Richardson, married, November 8, 1893, Elizabeth Buford Rich¬
ardson, born in Sumter County, South Carolina, March 27, 1837,
daughter of Rev. John S. Richardson, who was the son of Judge
John S. and Elizabeth Lucretia Richardson (see above), resi¬
dence, Dangerfield, Texas.

5. HENRY, JR., son of Henry and Mary Osborne Beauford,
born in Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1710, married Frances.
Children — Thomas, born November 22, 1733, died June 5, 1735;
Mary, November 24, 1735 ; Elizabeth, December 3, 1738 ; William,
May 15, 1742; Catherine, April 26, 1744; James, July 5, 1746;
Frances, May 17, 1748; Le Roy, April 29, 1751; Josiah, May 11,
1753; Letitia, September 1, 1758. None of Henry and Frances’
children are registered in Middlesex, except Thomas, 1735.

Henry, Jr., settled in the parish of Nottoway, Amelia Coun¬
ty, about 1740.

6. MARY, daughter of Henry and Frances Beauford, mar¬
ried Warren Buford. (See below.)

6. ELIZABETH, daughter of Henry and Frances Beau-
ford, married Robert Crenshaw.

6. WILLIAM, son of Henry and Frances Beauford, mar¬
ried, in 1781, Mary Ragsdale, born in 1761. (See Ragsdale.)
Children — Abram, born November 25, 1782; Sarah, February 17,
1784; William, April 13, 1785; Thomas, September 16, 1786;
John, January 12, 1788; Catherine, September 4, 1791.

William Buford lived in Lunenburg County, where he died
January 23, 1816. Mary R. Buford died May 4, 1792.

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RAGSDALE

1751. Godfrey Ragsdale’s will, dated 1751, mentions his planta¬
tion in Amelia County, which he bequeaths to Peter Ragsdale’s
children, also certain other lands to his brother Drury Ragsdale’s
children, viz: Drury, Jr., and Francis. He mentions his brother,
Joseph Ragsdale. Joseph Ragsdale makes a deed of gift to his grand¬
children, Rebecca, Robert, Samuel and Polly Scott, children of Jane
Ragsdale, who was married to Robert Scott, February 21, 1782.
Joseph Ragsdale’s wife was Sarah. His will was made in 1796 and
recorded January 9, 1800. He mentions his children, Alice (Lester),
Peter, Ann (Burdett), Jane (Hooper), who was probably also Jane
Scott, Mary (who married in 1785, Alexander Lester), Frances
(Clark), Rebecca, Sarah (Williamson), Elizabeth (Bacon),
John Ragsdale.

1779. Edward Ragsdale, Sr., will made in 1779 ; children men¬
tioned are Edward, Martha (and Edward Pettypool), Ann (Neblett),
William, John Baxter, Joshua, Elizabeth (married, in 1799, Elijah
Wells), Fatha and Jemima. Edward Sr’s, wife’s name was Milly.
His estate was estimated and appraised at £55,197, 10s. He leaves
to William two hundred acres of land on Stony Creek, in Mason’s
Survey. Edward died July 20, 1802.

1801. Major Edward Ragsdale, son of Edward, Sr.; will was re¬
corded in 1801. John Ragsdale was one of the executors, and made
the inventory, October 7, 1801, which shows him to have been wealthy
and possessed of many valuable articles.

1787. John Ragsdale, gentleman, of Bears Element Creek (son
of Edward, Sr.). His will was made in 1787, and recorded September

10, 1789. He leaves Joshua certain lands on Bears Creek. Other
children mentioned are: William, John, Jr., Priscilla, Frances,
Elizabeth, Mary, Ann and Edward, and also grandson, John Hardy
Ragsdale.

“John Ragsdale being nominated and appointed an ensign under
Daniel Garland, a captain of this county, this day in court took and
subscribed the usual oaths to his majesty’s person and government,
and also subscribed to the test. ' — Order Book, October Court, 1757.

‘‘The Court recommended John Ragsdale, of Bears Element Creek,
for justice of peace.’’ — Order Book, October Court, 1759.

“John Ragsdale, gentleman, produced commission appointing him
captain of the militia, and, it being read as usual, the said John took
the oath to his majesty’s person and government, and subscribed
the same, and repeated and subscribed to the test.” — Order Book, July

11, 1765. Appointed commissioner of deeds November 13, 1772, by
George Rex, in the twelfth year of his reign. — Deed Book, 1772.
Served as justice of peace until 1781, when he was made sheriff.
Bonds dated October 11, 1781 Served as sheriff until his death.
His daughters — Priscilla, married James Buford; Frances, married
Le Roy Buford; Mary, married William Buford; Ann, married

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Josiah Buford. (See Henry and Frances.)

1790. John Ragsdale. Jr., son of John, of Bears Creek. His will
was made in 1790. He mentioned his children, Lucy (Young), Eliza¬
beth (Ballard, wife of John Ballard), Mary (Gee), Drury, Samuel
and John 3d.

‘Ragsdale, Drury, Virginia, captain First Continental Artillery,
February 1, 1777, was in the service, October, 1778.” — Heitzman’s
Register, Revenue Officers.

1791. William Ragsdale, of Prince Edward County, made a deed
in 1791, and Ann, his wife, signed relinquishments. William married
Ann Gee.

179S. Joshua Ragsdale (son of John of Bears Element); will
was made in 1789. He married Letitia Buford, and mentions
children. Peter, Priscilla, Catherine, Henry Edward and James.

(See Letitia, Henry and James.)

1S04. John Ragsdale 3d (son of John, Jr.), made will in 1798,
and it was probated in 1813. He had no children, and left his estate
to his wife, Patience Ragsdale, and to his nephews. Thomas Buford
appraised the estate in 1S14.

Baxter Ragsdale (son of Edward, Sr.), was a minister of the
gospel.

1816. Drury Ragsdale’s estate was appraised in July, 1816, Wil¬
liam Ragsdale, administrator.

1817. Joshua Ragsdale’s will was made in April, 1817. He left
eight children — Nancy, Elizabeth, Rebecca (Harrison), Edward, Be¬
del. Martha. James and John.

1817. Washington Maddox married Frances Ragsdale in 1817.

7. ABRAM or Abraham, son of William and Mary Rags¬
dale Buford, born November 25, 1782, married, December 27,
1805, Mrs. Susan Pegram Manson Ingram, of Lunenburg County,
Virginia. Children — William Pegram, born July 20, 1807 ;
Thomas Manson, May 18, 1808; Abram, April 5, 1814.

Abram Buford was an officer in the war of 1812. He was
of Nottoway Parish, Amelia County, and died in Marengo
County, Alabama, October, 1852^f

PEGRAM

1. Edward the surveyor was the progenitor of the family in
America. He settled in Stony Creek, now' Dinwiddie County, Vir¬
ginia, married Mary, daughter of Colonel Baker and granddaughter
of Sir Follard Griffin. Children — William, Mary, Edward, John,
Elizabeth. Sarah. George Baker. Ann or Nancy, and Daniel.

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2. Mary, born May 6, 1744, married Thomas Manson. Children
— Susan Pegram, married, first, Ingram, and second, Abram Buford
(above). Martha Pegram married Thomas Buford, brother of Abram,
and had a son, who was a son, J. N. Manson, of Brunswick County.

2. Edward, an officer in the Revolution, and a juror in the trial
of Aaron Burr, married Mary Lyle. Son — John 2d. _

3. John 2d married, first, Miss Coleman, of Dinwiddie County.
Children — John 3d and Edward Lyle. Mrs. Coleman Pegram died,
and John 2d married, second, Martha Ward, daughter of Richard
Gregory, lawyer of Chesterfield County. Children — Richard Gregory,
Sr., James West, Sr., Maria Ward, Virginia, George Herbert, Robert
Baker, Louise, Martha R., William B., Lelia and Franklin.

General John 2d was a member of the Virginia Assembly in 1798-
1799; major-general Virginia Forces, War of 1812; member of Con¬
gress, 1818-19; died in 1831. Martha G. died December 31, 1836.

4. John 3d, M. D., married Carolina, daughter of George Pegram,
vestryman of Bristol Parish, and went to Indiana.

. 4. Edward Lyle married Mary, daughter of George Pegram, and
had one daughter, Mrs. Cochran, -of Louisiana.

4. Richard Gregory, Sr., captain, married Jane, daughter of
Robert Birchlett. Son — Richard Gregory, Jr., married Helen Burwell.

4. James West, Sr., general and lawyer, married Virginia, born
1818, daughter of Colonel William Ransom Johnson, the Napoleon of
the turf, and Mary, daughter of Dr. George Evans, of Chesterfield
County. Children— John 4th, born January 24, 1832; William John¬
son, in 1841; James West, Jr., Mary E. and Virginia. James W., Sr.,
vestryman Bristol Parish, in 1839; cashier of bank of Virginia,
Richmond, and afterwards president of the same. He was one of the
most admired citizens of Richmond, and gave conspicuous evidence
of his high character and gallantry by his conduct on the occasion of
the explosion of the steamboat, Lucy Walker, on the Mississippi River,
in 1844, where he lost his life rescuing a lady and her children. Mary
J., his wife, died February 28, 1888.

5. John 4th, West Point Military Academy, 1850-54; second
lieutenant Second Dragoon; instructor in cavalry tactics, West Point,
1857; resigned as major, May 10, 1861; entered the Confederate States
Army as lieutenant-colonel, 1862; brigadier-general, November 7,
1862; major-general, 1864; died, February 6, 1865, of a wound re¬
ceived at the battle of Hatcher’s Run, while commanding Early’s
old division of the Army of Virginia. He was regarded as one of
the ablest division commanders in the army. He married in Rich¬
mond, in 1864, Hetty, daughter of Nelson Miles Cary, of Baltimore.
She married, second, Professor H. Newell Martin, of Johns Hopkins
University.

5. William Johnson, lawyer, entered the Confederate States
Army as a private in 1861, Company F., Richmond Infantry, subse-
sequently twenty-first Virginia Regiment; lieutenant in Walker’s
Artillery, August, 1861; captain in Pegram Battalion, 1862; major

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in the same; lieutenant-colonel artillery, 1865; killed at the battle of
Five Forks, Petersburg, April 2, 1865, the day before the Confeder¬
ates’ line was broken.

5. Janies West, Jr., major Confederate States Army, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Honorable Raleigh Travers Daniel, attorney-
general of Virginia.

5. Mary E., married, in 1883, General Joseph R. Anderson.
She is the principal of English and French Boarding School, Balti¬
more, Maryland.

5. Virginia married Colonel David McIntosh, Confederate’s
States Army, of South Carolina, now of Towsontown, Maryland.

4. Maria Ward married, February 11, 1829, David May, born
September 9, 1796, died December 24, 1870.

4. Virginia married Robert Triplett, of Kentucky. Children —
Ann, married J. Andrew White, and Lelia, married Judge Truman.

4. George Herbert, captain and adjutant-general of Generals
Taylor and Scott in the Mexican War, married Miss Spencer, of
Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Daughter — Lilia, married Arthur Stod¬
dard, of Savannah, Georgia.

4. Robert Baker, United States and Confederate States Navies;
entered United States Navy in 1829; served in China Squadron and
Wilkes’s expedition; had a sword voted to him by acclamation by
Virginia Assembly, and received testimonials from the commander
of the British fleet in China and from Queen Victoria, for gallant
conduct in the capture of a piratical flotilla in the China Sea; re¬
signed in 1861, and entered the Confederate States Navy; rendered
daring and conspicuous service to the Confederates ; married, first,
Lucy B., daughter of Colonel John Cargill, of Sussex County.
Children — (1) Margaret, married, first, May 20, 1863, Colonel S. Wil¬
liams, Confederate States Army, who was killed, June 9, 1863. at
Brandy Station, Culpeper County; married, second, in November, 186S,
B. W. Belcher, ex-major in the Confederate States Army; married,
third. Dr. M. J. Holt; (2) John C., captain in the Confederate
States Army and adjutant-general, staff of General Ransom, killed
near Petersburg. June 16, 1864; (3) James W., Confederate States
navy, wounded at Fort Fisher, married, in 1867, Eliza Blacknall.
Children — George B., Robert B., Lucy C. and Emma; (4) Lucy Car¬
gill; (5) Robert B., married Ella Wyatt, of Alabama, two sons; (6)
George William, of Petersburg.

4. Louisa married R. W. Rainey.

4. Martha R. married Charles Stainback. Children — Littlebury,
Anna, married Mr. Williamson; James West, Grace, married Mr.
Debbrell, of New York, and Blanche.

4. William B., lawyer, married Amelia Coombs, of Kentucky.
Children — Martha Ward, married David Hamilton, of Louisville,
Kentucky; John C., United States Navy, married Minnie Homer, of
Newport, Rhode Island. She died in 1895, leaving several children,

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Virginia married Allen Gilmore, of Scotland; Maria Ward 2d mar¬
ried Daniel Wilson, of Farmville, Virginia, and William B.

4. Lelia, married M. Paul, of Petersburg. Children — Martha,
married Major William Barksdale, son of Gustavus A., who married a
daughter of Governor William B. Giles.

4 Franklin, lieutenant United States Army, died of disease
contracted in Mexico.

3. George Baker had children, Mary and Nathaniel, who went
to Illinois about sixty years ago; his son married Rebecca, and had a
daughter, Elizabeth, Carrollton, Illinois.

3. Nancy, married Daniel Epps.

3. Daniel, Sr. Children — John, Baker, Jesse, Jacob, William,
George, Daniel, Jr., Elijah and Cynthia, who married Aaron Sharon
and went west. Daniel, Sr., went to Charlotte, North Carolina, all
his sons settling in Guilford County, North Carolina. George re¬
turned to Virginia. Jacob had children, J. H., of Winston, North
Carolina, who has two sons; L. W., also of Winston, North Carolina,
and T. H., of Wilmington, North Carolina.

MANSON

1. Peter, Sr., of St. Charles Parish, York County, married, first,
Miss Somarin. Child — Otis born November 1, 1690, died December

9, 1690; married, second. Elizabeth. Children — Peter, born August
25, 1697; Ann, June 4, 1699; Elizabeth, April 3, 1701, married Monroe
or Merriwether Skelton Gillman, no issue; John, February 14, 1702;
James, January 13, 1704; Frances, July 28, 1707, died December 25,
1707; Nathaniel, April 10, 1710; Walter, December 8, 1713.

Peter died August 31, 1721. Whether this was Peter, Sr., or his
son, Peter, the register does not state; however, the survivor, prob¬
ably Peter, Jr., married Hannah. Children — Mary, born November
3, 1726; John, September 5, 1728. Hannah died June 24, 1784.

3. Robert, grandson of Peter, Sr., married Mary. Children —
Anna, born August 20. 1771; John, October 21, 1773; Mary, January

10, 1776; Hannah, January 16, 1778; Polly, January 12, 1780; Thomas
Pescud, April 9, 1782; Robert Pescud, March 24, 1784; Hannah, Jan¬
uary 30, 1786. — Register, St. Charles Parish, York County, Virginia.

CLAYTON AND BOWYER

1. Sir John Clayton, Sr., married Alice Bowyer.

2. John, Jr. (1665-1737), son of Sir John and Alice Bowyer Clay¬
ton, was for many years the attorney-general of the Colony of Vir¬
ginia.

3. John 3d, the botanist (1693-1773), son of John, Jr., married
Elizabeth Whiting, whose sister, Catherine, was the second wife
of Nicholas Davis.

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4. Ann, daughter of John 3d and Elizabeth W. Clayton, married
her cousin, H. L. Davis, January 15, 1767.

5. Lucy Clayton, granddaughter of John 3d and Elizabeth W.
Clayton, married Peter Manson, of Dinwiddie County.

6. Nathaniel, son of Peter and Lucy Clayton Manson, married
Sarah, daughter of Robert Alexander and his wife, Anne Austin, of
Elk Island, a; granddaughter of Colonel William Calloway, for many
years clerk of Bedford County. Robert Alexander was the son of
Robert (brother of Archibald), a graduate of Dublin University, who
emigrated to the Valley of Virginia and established there the classical
school which was developed into Washington and Lee University.

7. Addisonia-, the- daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Alexander
Manson, married Paul Carrington Calloway, March 13, 1842, whom
she survived many years, and died in 1892. (See Early, above.)

“Alice Bowyer (above), wife of John Clayton, was the daughter
of Sir William Bowyer, Baronet of Durham Bucks, by his first wife,
Margaret, daughter of Sir John Weld, of Arnolds, son of Sir Humphrey
Weld. Both of these Welds were founders of Virginia. Sir William
Bowyer’s mother, Anne, was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Salter,
another founder. She married, for second husband, Sir Arthur Har¬
ris, also founder, and nephew of Sir Thomas Smith, the chief manager
of the business portions of our first foundation. The founders of the
nation continued their interest in the new country from generation
to generation, and the descendants of Attorney-General Clayton have
a right to feel proud of being his kin.” — “Cabell and Their Kin,” by
Alexander Brown. If the same Ma-nsons are here referred to, the
statements do not seem reconcilable. .

8. WILLIAM PEGRAM, son of Abram and Susan P. Bu¬
ford, Parish of Nottoway, Amelia County, Virginia, born July
20, 1807, married May 9, 1833, Lucy A. Rice, born March 12, 1807
(daughter of Colonel William Rice, of New Brunswick County.)
They had twelve children, the two eldest dying in infancy. The
others are— Francis Emmet, born November 17, 1836 ; Lelia Fitz-
william, May 5, 1839 ; Margaret Susan, May 4, 1841 ; Mary Eliza¬
beth, April 11, 1843; James Rice, April 29, 1845; Virginia Peg-
ram, June 19, 1847 ; Charles, August 8, 1849; Frances Rice, Sep¬
tember 23, 1851; Andrew, October 30, 1853; Preston, March 2,
1856.

William Pegram Buford died at “Farmington,” his home, in
Brunswick County, Virginia, December 16, 1868. Lucy Rice Bu¬
ford died at “Farmington,” August 27, 1895.

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9. FRANCIS EMMET, son of William Pegram and Lucy
R. Buford, born November 17, 1836, married, September 24,
1858, Pattie Hicks (daughter of E. B. Hicks and granddaughter
of Ex-Governor Stone, of North Carolina).

Lawyer, com. attorney, legislator, judge, and editor of Bruns¬
wick Gazette. Residence, Sherwood, near Lawrenceville, Vir¬
ginia. Children — -Emmet, born January 8, 1861 ; Elizabeth
Stone, January 2, 1863; Edward Price, December 19, 1865;
Frank, August 25, 1868; Robert Pegram, February 4, 1870, and
Mary Amanda Stewart, August 26, 1885. Emmet died March
13, 1910. Frank died June 17, 1910. Edward Price Buford is a
brilliant and successful lawyer of Lawrenceville, Virginia, and
the only son of his father’s family now living (1924). Francis
Emmet died in the spring of 1909.

10. ELIZABETH STONE, daughter of Francis Emmet and
Pattie H. Buford, born January 2, 1863, married Rev. Robert
Strange, rector of St. James Parish, Wilmington, North Caro¬
lina. Children — Helen, Lewis and Robert Strange, Jr.

10. ROBERT PEGRAM, son of Francis Emmet and Pattie
Buford, married, December, 1892, Lue Palmer. Child — Florence
de Launey.

9. LELIA FITZWILLIAM, daughter of William Pegram
and Lucy Rice Buford, married Robert Coleman Robins, January
22, 1867, who was born in 1838 at “The Globe,” Gloucester Coun¬
ty, Virginia. Children — Lucy Armistead, born December 31,
1868; Margaret Buford, June 2, 1872; Frances Coleman, April 4,
1877.

Robert Coleman Robins, died in 1877. Lelia Buford Robins
died December, 1906.

10. LUCY ARMISTEAD, daughter of Robert Coleman and
Lelia Buford Robins, married Marcus Waddell, June, 1890.
Children — Irving, born in 1891; Roy, 1892; Ellen, 1894. Home,
Brooklyn, New York.

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10. MARGARET BUFORD, daughter of Robert Coleman
and Lelia Buford Robins, married James Howard Waddell.
Child — Lelia Buford, born February 19, 1896. They live at
“Robin Nest,” Gloucester County, Virginia.

9. MARGARET SUSAN, born May 5, 1841, at “Farming-
ton,” Brunswick County, Virginia, and died October 16, 1910,
at Lawrenceville, Virginia.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of William Pegram
and Lucy Rice Buford, married, April 12, 1871, James Allen
Phillips, who was born January 5, 1842. Children — Virginia
Byrum, born July 16, 1872, died February 2, 1875; James Allen,
January 21, 1874, died February 16, 1875; Theodora, November
16, 1875.

James Allen Phillips died September 14, 1875.

10. THEODORA, daughter of James Allen and Elizabeth
Buford Phillips, married F. E. Hill. Their home is in Bloom¬
field, New Jersey. Her mother, Elizabeth Buford Phillips, makes
her home with them. Elizabeth Buford Phillips is a member and
historian of Mary Mildred Sullivan Chapter, United Daughters
of the Confederacy, of New York City, and is author of the
famous tract, “Matthew Fontaine Maury,” which was read at a
meeting of the chapter, April 4, 1921 ; also author of a lovely
poem, to the memory of Garnett Lee, of the 38th Infantry, 3rd
Division, A. E. F., whose summons came on Chateau-Thierry bat¬
tle field, July 15, 1918, and whose body sleeps beneath the Fleur-
de-lis, in the cemetery of France. This poem was read before the
convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Tam¬
pa, Florida, on Armistice Day, November 11, 1919; and many
other articles of interest have come from her pen.

9. JAMES RICE, son of William Pegram and Lucy Rice
Buford, was born April 29, 1845, at the old homestead, “Farm¬
ington,” in Brunswick County, Virginia, and lived and died there,
September 26, 1913.

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9. VIRGINIA PEGRAM, daughter of William Pegram
and Lucy Rice Buford, remained single, taught school for forty-
five years, in select, public schools, academies, colleges and female
colleges in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia. She taught in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County,
North Carolina, for more than eleven years. The school board
there made her a lifetime member of the faculty. Miss Jennie
did much writing, contributing a column or so weekly to
the Charlotte papers,' entitled “From the Chatelaine’s Point
of View.” She was requested by the Mary Mildred Sul¬
livan Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confeder¬
acy, of New York City, of which she is a member, to
make a copy of some of her best writings, to be placed in the
Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, for the benefit of teachers
in the future, this to be with pen and ink, so they could see the
style, form and handwriting of a lady who had passed seventy-
five years of age (1922). In 1899 she took a party of young
ladies to Europe and had a delightful time. Several times she, as
well as her sisters, Margaret and Fannie, were called to the homes
of their brothers, in cases of sickness and death, to care for and
help make a home, which they willingly and cheerfully did. Her
home now is with her brother, Preston, at “Hyco Hill,” Caswell
County, North Carolina. Semora is their postoffice.

9. CHARLES, son of William Pegram and Lucy Rice Bu¬
ford, married, December 15, 1878, Ellen Zeverly, a Moravian,
daughter of Dr. Augustus Zeverly. Child — Nellie Zeverly, born
October 4, 1886. His wife died in 1899, and he married again in
1903 and had one son by this union, Charles, Jr., born Septem¬
ber 20, 1905. He was agent for the Southern Railway. His
home, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Charles Buford died
April 23, 1906.

9. FRANCES RICE, daughter of William Pegram and
Lucy Rice Buford, never married. She has taught school and
has lived with and cared for and helped make homes for different

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ones of her family when needed. She now lives with her brother
Preston at “Hico Hill,” Semora, North Carolina.

9. ANDREW, son of William Pegram and Lucy Rice Bu¬
ford, married Carrei Caldwell, daughter of William P. and
granddaughter of Governor David Caldwell of North Carolina.
Children — Preston 2d, born October 12, 1887 ; Nannie Caldwell,
November 29, 1888, and another son. Andrew Buford is a retired
railroad official, having served in that capacity for thirty-four
years of faithful service to the Southern Railroad (the old Rich¬
mond & Danville Railroad).

10. Nancy Caldwell, daughter of Andrew and Nannie Cald¬
well Buford, married Stuart Jones, who died May 23, 1921.
Home, Brunswick Springs, Virginia. Her mother died before she
did.

9. PRESTON, son of William Pegram and Lucy Rice Bu¬
ford, married Miss Fanny Bouldin in 1913, and lives on a farm,
“Hyco Hill,” Semora, Caswell County, North Carolina. His sis¬
ters, Jennie and Fannie, make their home with their brother and
his wife.

8. THOMAS MANSON, son of Abram and Susan P. Bu¬
ford, married, in January, 1832, Sarah Ellen Hart, who died with¬
out issue, June 2, 1835. He married, November 15, 1837, Marie
Louise Smith, who was born March 24, 1819. Children — Alice
Susan, born September 23, 1838, died October 12, 1843 ; Thomas
Lawrence, September 3, 1846; Charles Watthall, June 20, 1849;
Louis Churchill, November 24, 1851, died October 12, 1881.

Marie Louise Buford died November 10, 1860; Thomas Man-
son Buford died August 14, 1881.

9. THOMAS LAWRENCE, son of Thomas Manson and
Marie Louise Buford, married, March 26, 1868, Sallie R. Drewry,
who was born October 16, 1848. Children — Samuel Drewry,
boin May 3, 1869, and Charles Thomas, March 17, 1876.

9. CHARLES WATTHALL, son of Thomas Manson and
Marie Louise Buford, married, November 9, 1887, Helen R.

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Briggs. Children — Helen Briggs, born September 9, 1888, died
August 12, 1893; Louise Watthall, January 20, 1891; Charles
Watthall, Jr., June 5, 1895.

8. ABRAHAM, JR., son of Abram and Susan P. Buford,

married - . Daughter — Sarah Ravenscroft.

9. SARAH RAVENSCROFT, daughter of Abraham Bu¬
ford, Jr., married, December 9, 1857, Colonel John Thomas
Goode, of “Sunnyside,” Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Children
—Juliet V., born in 1858 ; Mary H., 1861 ; William D., 1863 ; Lelia
B., 1866.

7. SARAH, daughter of William and Mary Ragsdale Bu¬
ford, born'February 17, 1784, married John Starke Ravenscroft,
first bishop of the diocese of North Carolina, in 1818. She died
without issue, January 15, 1829, and is buried under the Episco¬
pal Church at Williamsboro, Granville County, North Carolina.

John Starke Ravenscroft was married in 1792, to Anne Spots-
wood Burwell, born February 14, 1773, daughter of Lewis Bur-
well, Mecklenburg County. Anne died in 1814, and he married
Sarah Buford in 1818, and was made bishop of North Carolina in
1823, and died in 1830.

7. WILLIAM, son of William and Mary Ragsdale Buford,
born April 3, 1785, married Susan R. Shelton, of Pittsylvania
County, Virginia. Children — William Henry, born September
10, 1820; Algernon Sidney, January 2, 1826; Charles James Fox,
May 24, 1830.

SHELTON

William and Clough Shelton signed the “Renunciation of Allegi¬
ance to Great Britain,” in Albermarle County, Virginia, in 1776.
Abram and Crispin Shelton were vestrymen in Camden Parish, Pitt¬
sylvania County. William, Edwin, Ralph C. and Richard, of Am¬
herst County. Sarah Shelton married Patrick Henry. John, grand¬
son of Sir Ralph Shelton, married Ann Burrett, daughter of Peytop
Randolph, and his wife, Helen Maxwell McCauley Southall. Children

— Alexander, never married; Harriet; John, married - Boyer;

son John, married Amanda McRae; Turner Southall; Philip, and
Southall. Miss Shelton married Robert Anderson.

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8. WILLIAM HENRY, son of William and Susan Shelton
Buford, married, in 1855, Indiana Wilson, daughter of Colonel
Nathaniel Wilson, of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She died
without issue, in 1868. Residence, Norotock, Virginia.

8. ALGERNON SIDNEY, son of William and Susan R.
Shelton Buford, married, first, Emily Townes. Child — Emily,
born July 4, 1859. Algernon Sidney Buford married, for second
wife, Kate Wortham, of Richmond, Virginia. Child — Katy
Thomas, born May 2, 1871. His third wife was Mary Cameron
Ross, widow of Robert Strother. Children — Elise Mayo
Strother; Algernon Sidney Buford, Jr., born December 19, 1879;
Mary Rose, January 4, 1882; William Erskine, July 5, 1887.

9. EMILY, daughter of Algernon Sidney and Emily T.
Buford, married, January 4, 1885, Honorable Clement Manley,
Winston, North Carolina.

9. ELISE MAYO STROTHER, daughter of Algernon and
Mary C. R. Buford, married Frederick W. Scott. Child — Alger¬
non Sidney Buford.

8. CHARLES JAMES FOX, son of William and Susan
Shelton Buford, married Nannie Chewing. Child — Sue Fox, born
in 1859.

9. SUE FOX, daughter of C. J. F. and Nannie Buford, mar¬
ried Frank Nalle. Children — Eleanor and Charles Ravenscroft.
They reside at Somerset, Orange County, Virginia.

7. THOMAS, son of William and Mary Ragsdale Buford,
married Martha P. Manson, who was born August 18, 1791.
Children — John Rockford, born October 18, 1809; Mary Ann
Catherine and Robert William (twins), February 11, 1813; Mary
A. C., died in infancy; Thomas, April 16, 1815, married Mary
James, who died January 19, 1842, leaving one son, Walter, born
in 1842, died in 1861; Edward Walter, born April 8, 1818, never
married.

Thomas Buford died September 10, 1820. Martha Manson
Buford died April 29, 1827.

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8. JOHN ROCKFORD, son of Thomas and Martha Man-
son Buford, married, December 24, 1833, Emily A. Neal. He
died October 28, 1850. She died December 17, 1893. They lived
near Franklin, Tennessee. Children — Thomas Edward, born No¬
vember 17, 1834, killed at the battle of River Pines, May 31,
1862; Mary E., February 5, 1837, died November 20, 1890;
Sarah N., May 25, 1839; John Henry, January 8, 1842, died Feb¬
ruary, 1859; Martha A., November 15, 1844; Susan A., January
11, 1846; Joseph Swepson, July 13, 1848.

9. SARAH N., daughter of John Rockford and Emily N.
Buford, married January 5, 1858, W. R. Bethell. Children — -
Avondale, born February 20, 1860; Walter T., April 2, 1861.

Sarah N. Buford died in May, 1864.

9. JOSEPH SWEPSON, son of John R. and Emily Neal
Buford, married, January 5, 1887, Emma Virginia Hardy, born
June 18, 1864 (see Catherine Buford, below). Children — Ed¬
win Hardy, born November 18, 1887 ; Joseph Swepson, Jr., April
13, 1889 ; Cornelius H., September 30, 1891. They live at Nash¬
ville, Tennessee.

10. EDWIN HARDY, son of Joseph S. and Emma V. H.
Buford, married in Birmingham, Alabama, Ella M. Jenkins.
Children — Edwin Hardy, Jr., born September 24, 1919 ; Andrew
Jenkins, June 8, 1922. Residence, 5730 Kingsbury Place, St.
Louis, Missouri.

8. WILLIAM ROBERT, son of Thomas and Martha Man-
son Buford, married, October 12, 1837, Emma J. Hardy (see
Catherine Buford, below). Children — James H. and Mary R.
both died young. William Robert died July 5, 1850. He lived
at Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, died there, and was buried,
with his daughter, in the old Pegram burying-ground. His son,
James H., was buried at “White Hall.” Emma H. Buford mar¬
ried, second, E. J. Powell, and is a widow a second time. Lives at
Nashville, Tennessee.

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8. THOMAS, JR., son of Thomas and Martha P. M. Buford,
married Miss James. Child — Walter, died young.

7. JOHN, son of William and Mary Ragsdale Buford, mar¬
ried Sophia Margaretta Knox of Mecklenburg County, Virginia,
who was born May 2, 1799, died July 7, 1826. Children — William
Knox, born October 8, 1818; Thomas Goode, April 19, 1821 ; John
Ravenscroft, March 10, 1823; Ann Margaretta, July 1, 1826.

KNOX

Sophia Margaretta Knox, wife of John Buford, was a descendant
of William Murray, Lord Mansfield, the jurist. The first of the
Murray family in America was James, of Bristol Parish, 1716. who
was a native of Scotland. He perpetuated the name of the ancestral
seat in Scotland in that of his home, “Athol,” near Petersburg. He
married Anne. Issue — James, born July 10, 1743; John, September
13, 1744; Anne, August 30, 1746; Margaret, February 8, 1748; Wil¬
liam, May 6, 1752; Mary, February 22. 1754; Thomas, June 13, 1757.
James and John Murray owned large estates in Mecklenburg County,
near what is now Chase City, then called Christianville. Margaret
Murray married Thomas Gordon. Issue — Nancy, who married Henry
E. Coleman, of Halifax County; William Murray inherited the family
seat, “Athol,” and was known as the “Duke of Athol.” Mary Mur¬
ray married, first. Alexander Gordon, a merchant of Petersburg, and
a native of Scotland ; second, Colonel William Davies, son of Rev.
Samuel Davies, the apostle of Presbyterianism in Virginia, who was
a graduate of Princeton College, read law with Richard Stockton,
who had acted as his guardian; returned to Virginia at the beginning
of the Revolution, enlisted in the army, and attained the rank of
colonel, served with distinction, enjoying the friendship of Washing¬
ton. and was Commissioner of War. After the war he was employed
at Philadelphia, to settle the war claims of Virginia. Afterwards
he settled at Brandyford, and practiced his profession. He was ap¬
pointed by Washington collector of the Port of Norfolk, which posi¬
tion he held until 1801.

Alexander and Mary Murray Gordon had issue — Peggy, married
first, William Knox, of Philadelphia, who died in 1809, in Petersburg;
married, second. Colonel Grief Green, a lawyer, of Mecklenburg
County. Issue of the first marriage (Knox) — Mary Anne, married
Dr. Thomas Goode, of Warm Springs; Sophia Margaretta, married
John Buford; William Alexander, Eliza and John. Issue of the
second marriage (Green) — Henry.

Colonel William and Mary Murray Davies (her second marriage)
had issue — Mary Ann, who married Fortesque Whittle, an ardent
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brought Robert Emmett to the block. He joined his brother, Conway,
in Norfolk and settled there. Issue — William Conway, captain,
United States Navy, and commodore Confederate States Navy, mar¬
ried Elizabeth Kennon, sister of Beverly Kennon, commodore United
States Navy, killed by an explosion on board the United States
Steamer Princeton, in 1844; of Richard Kennon, purser, United
States Navy; of Sally Short Kennon, who married Commodore
Arthur Sinclair, United States Navy; and of George Tarry Kennon,
surgeon, United States Navy; James, who married, first, Mary
Coler; second, Camelia Skipwith, granddaughter of William Murray;
John S., surgeon United States Navy; Lewis U. ; Stephen Decatur;
Francis M., bishop of the Potestant Episcopal Church of Virginia ;
Powhattan, colonel Confederate States Army.

8. WILLIAM KNOX, son of John and Sophia M. K. Bu¬
ford, married Isabel McWhorter, resided at Montgomery, Ala¬
bama, had one child, Mary William Knox. William K. Buford
died in Cuba, where he went for his health. His wife married,
second, J. B. Whattey. She died in January, 1898.

9. MARY W. K., daughter of William K. and Isabel Mc¬
Whorter Buford, married Dr. Francis, son of Commodore D om¬
en ick Lynch, United States Navy. Children— William Francis,
died in infancy; Junius Francis, John Shaw, Buford and Francis.
Dr. Francis Lynch died, and his widow married T. E. Powell.
Children — Knoxie and Llewellyn.

10. JUNIUS FRANCIS, son of Dr. Francis and Mary W.
K. B. Lynch, married, in 1891, Lucy, daughter of ex-Governor
Janies Kemper, of Virginia. Child — Virginia K., Norfolk, Vir¬
ginia.

10. JOHN SHAW, son of Dr. Francis and Mary W. K. B.
Lynch, married, in 1892, Miss Metcalf, daughter of H. B. Met¬
calf, of Alabama. Child — Beatrice Metcalf.

8. ANN MARGARETTA, daughter of John and Sophia Bu¬
ford, married, January, 1856, William Healy ; went from Virginia
to Georgia in 1844, thence to Montgomery, Alabama, where he
died. She is still living there.

7. CATHERINE, daughter of William and Mary Ragsdale
Buford, born September 4, 1791, married, October 14, 1815,

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Henry Bur well. They were burned to death at “Stoneland,” the
home of the Burwells, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Kath¬
erine dying January 2, 1816, and her husband, January 4, 1816.

6. CATHERINE, daughter of Henry and Frances Beau-
ford, married Covington Hardy, of London, England. Children
— Vincent, born January 17, 1770; Charles, Miles, John, Henry,
Amelia, Priscilla and Letitia. Covington and Catherine Hardy
lived, died and were buried at their homestead, “White Hall,”
Lunenburg County, Virginia.

7. VINCENT, son of Covington and Catherine Hardy,
married, first, June 5, 1802, Mary Ann P. Betts, born October 24,
1785. Children — Miles, born March 7, 1803, died January 29,
1834 ; Abraham, October 25, 1804, died. Mary Ann B. Hardy
died October 25, 1894. Vincent married, second, February 14,
1809, Sarah Penn, born September 17, 1783. Children — Edwin,
born November 29, 1809, died September 11, 1830; Griffin Or-
gain, March 14, 1811, died in 1896; Dabney, 1812, married twice;
second wife, Marie, lived at Hollvdale, Virginia; Minerva Eliza¬
beth, December 17, 1814, died August 30, 1877 ; Lucy Orgain,
September 5, 1816, died September 2, 1896; Petronilla Sharp,
April 1, 1820; Martha Armistead, July 29, 1821, married H. O.
Eanes, of Danville, Virginia; Sarah Vincent, December 8, 1822,
married Richard Barnes, Blackstone, Virginia. Lived in Lunen¬
burg County, Virginia.

Vincent Hardy died September 22, 1861.

8. LUCY ORGAIN, daughter of Vincent and Sarah P.
Hardy, married, February 22, 1843, Richard Henry Sharp, born
September 7, 1798, son of Turner and Jones Sharp. (Jones fam¬
ily prominent in Caswell County, North Carolina.) Children —
Richard Henry, born March 30, 1844; Edward Vincent, Decem¬
ber 14, 1846; Martha Orgain, 1848, died in 1849; Robert, Octo¬
ber, 1851. Home, Lawrenceville, Virginia.

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8. SARAH, daughter of Vincent and Sarah P. Hardy, mar¬
ried, first, July 17, 1850, Enos H. Barnes. After his death she
married his brother, Richard, sons of Asa.

7. CHARLES, son of Covington and Catherine B. Hardy,
married and had sixteen children.

7. MILES, son of Covington and Catherine B. Hardy, mar¬
ried and had seven children.

7. JOHN, son of Covington and Catherine B. Hardy, mar¬
ried and had ten children.

7. HENRY, son of Covington and Catherine B. Hardy,
married, first, in 1812, Mary Sterling Neblett. Children — Vir¬
ginia; Emma J., born in 1815, married, first, William R. Buford
(see Thomas above) ; second, E. J. Powell; James S. ; William
H.; Mary E., died June 20, 1896, and Edwin C., twins, August 4,
1823. Henry married, second, Permelia Betts, of Virginia. Chil¬
dren — George H., died, Cornelius, John, Charles B., Permelia H.,
Missouri H., Herbert E., Leonora J., Susan P., Lucy H. and
Frances. Charles B., Leonora J. and Frances lived in Blackstone,
Virginia.

8. EMMA J., daughter of Henry and Mary S. N. Hardy,
married William Robert Buford (see above Thomas 1st) .

8. EDWIN COVINGTON, son of Henry and Mary S. N.
Hardy, married in 1858, Annie Eastman, of Eutaw, Alabama.
Children — Mary E., born May 31, 1859; John H., April 16, 1861,
died June 25, 1883 ; Emma V., June 18, 1864.i "

Edwin Covington died March 4, 1886.

9. MARY E., daughter of Edwin Covington and Annie E.
Hardy, married, May 30, 1891, R. S. Bruno, of Birmingham,
Alabama. Child — Richard, born November 4, 1892.

9. EMMA V., daughter of Edwin C. and Annie E. Hardy,
married Joseph Swepson Buford (see above, Thomas 1st) .

7. AMELIA, daughter of Covington and Catherine B.
Hardy, married Mr. McQuie and had five children.

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8. PRISCILLA, married Mr. Wyatt and moved to Ten¬
nessee.

8. LETITIA, married Dr. Asa Barnes, had four children
and died August 16, 1828.

HARDY

William Hardy’s will was made in 1790. He mentions his
children, John, Covington, Stith and Thomas, his son-in-law, Lydal
Bacon, also his brother, Covington Hardy. Lydal Bacon’s will is
dated July 21, 1775; wife’s name is given as Mary. Children are —
Elizabeth (Gordon), Lucy (Langston), Ann (Dixon), Sarah (Glem),
Lydal, Richard, Edward Parkes and Drury. Covington Hardy’s will
is dated January 3, 1814.

CHAPTER XV.

6. JAMES AND PRISCILLA RAGSDALE BUFORD

6. JAMES, son of Henry and Frances Beauford, of Amelia
County, Virginia, married Priscilla Ragsdale, born November 25,
1746. Children — Sicily, born January 8, 1771; Henry, July 10,
1772; John, July 5, 1774; Frances, October 17, 1776; Spencer,
September 7, 1778; Charles, August 29, 1780; Charlotte, October
26, 1782; James, Jr., December 30, 1784; Edward, May 15, 1787 ;
Priscilla, July 2, 1789; Mary, March 15, 1792; Catherine, May
30, 1793.

James Buford was born in Brunswick Parish, Amelia Coun¬
ty, Virginia, married and lived in Lunenburg County until 1803,
when he went to Tennessee and settled in Williamson County,
eight miles south of Franklin. He helped lay out the town of
Franklin.

7. SICILY, daughter of James and Priscilla Ragsdale Bu¬
ford, married, first, James Lester, who was born August 30, 1792.
Sons — John, who went to Colorado, married and had a large fam¬
ily (dead), and James, went to Birmingham, Alabama. Sicily
married, second, Alexander Reid. Children — Sarah Buford,
Catherine, Priscilla and Mary.

8. SARAH BUFORD, daughter of Alexander and Sicily B.
Reid, married Leonard Donavant, whose descendants live at
Laudervale, Tennessee.

8. PRISCILLA, daughter of Alexander and Sicily B. Reid,
married William Edmonson.

8. MARY, daughter of Alexander and Sicily B. Reid, mar¬
ried P. H. McCutcheon.

7. HENRY, son of James and Priscilla R. Buford, married
Sarah Jackson, born March 13, 1778. Children — Benjamin, born
December 29, 1796; James R., October 13, 1798; never married,
died in 1818; William S., May 9, 1800, never married, died June

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10, 1813; John V., October 26, 1801; Elizabeth P., April 1, 1803,
died June 11, 1852; Martha M., April 30, 1805, never married,
died in 1817 ; Edward B., December 11, 1806, died August 27,
1872; Patrick H., December 6, 1809, never married, died in Jan¬
uary, 1869; Abram V., June 6, 1812; Larkin W., October 5, 1813;
Sarah Ann, September 19, 1821, died in 1877. Lived in Lunen¬
burg County, Virginia.

8. BENJAMIN, son of Henry and Sarah J. Buford, mar¬
ried, 1824, Bettie Morgan. Children — Raleigh M., born in 1825,
died in 1867 ; Samuel, 1827, died in 1828.

Benjamin, Jr., died in 1845. Bettie died in 1865. Lived in
North Alabama.

8. EDWARD B., son of Henry and Sarah J. Buford, mar¬
ried, in 1830, Margaret Tucker. Children — James F., born in
1831, died in 1865 ; Bettie, 1833, died in 1866. Edward B. Buford
died in 1869.

Margaret T. Buford died in 1841. Lived at Collirene, Ala¬
bama.

8. ABRAM V., son of Henry and Sarah J. Buford, married,
in 1839, Katherine Barton, born in 1818. Children — Lizzie, born
in 1840; William Larkin, 1842; Sarah A., 1844; James Barton,
1846, died in 1852; Julia Ann, 1854; John Robert, 1856; Nancy
Jane, 1858.

Abram V. Buford died in 1874. Katherine died in 1874.
Lived at Dongola, Illinois.

9. WILLIAM LARKIN is a physician and lives in Mount •
Willing, Alabama.

8. JOHN V., son of Henry and Sarah J. Buford, married
August 14, 1828, Sarah A. Young, born October 14, 1804. Chil¬
dren — William H., born March 22, 1830, died June 12, 1882; John
R., March 25, 1832, died April 4, 1863; Sarah Ann, July 5, 1834;
Mary Jane, October 31, 1836; Martha F., March 25, 1838, died
February 22, 1859 ; James E., June 19, 1841 ; Susan E., August 25,

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

1844, died June 15, 1871; Frederick H., April 5, 1847, died Oc¬
tober 8, 1849.

John V. Buford died November 8, 1879. Susan A. Buford,
died July 12, 1868. Lived in Collirene, Lowndes County, Ala¬
bama.

9. JAMES E., son of John V. and Sarah A. Buford, mar¬
ried, March 24, 1870, M. C. Knight. Children — Fannie 0., born
August 23, 1871; Mary L., September 13, 1873; John E., Febru¬
ary 25, 1876; William C., February 28, 1878, died March 9, 1897 ;
Susan E., February 18, 1880; Jessie W., June 24, 1882; Addie J.,
August 27, 1885, died June 12, 1891 ; Kate B., May 24, 1888; Lela
M., January 31, 1891. They live at Ad Hall, Milam County,
Texas.

10. FANNIE 0., daughter of James E. and M. K. Buford,
married R. L. Bowden.

10. MARY L., daughter of James E. and M. K. Buford,
married F. M. Barnes.

10. JOHN E., son of James E. and M. K. Buford, married
Annie Bassett.

10. SUSAN E., daughter of James E. and M. K. Buford,
married Robert Enett.

8. LARKIN W., son of Henry and Sarah J. Buford, mar¬
ried, in 1843, Mary T. Bacon, born in 1825. Children — Marcellus,
born in 1846, died in 1848; Taylor, 1848; Sarah, 1850, died in
1870; Henry Bascom, 1852; Virginia, 1854; Emma Louisa, 1856;
Ida E., 1860, died in 1877; John Robert, 1862; Benjamin Wat¬
kins, 1864; Larkin Fletcher, 1866, died in 1872; Lizzie Love, 1868.
They live in Collirene, Alabama.

9. TAYLOR, son of Larkin W. and Mary B. Buford, mar¬
ried, in 1879, Emma Gray, born in 1861, died in 1880. Taylor
Buford died in 1880. They lived in Collirene, Alabama.

9. HENRY BASCOM, son of Larkin W. and Mary B. Bu¬
ford, married, first, Callie Frederick. Children — Sallie, born in
1873, married Mr. Collins and lives at Keystone, Alabama; Rob-

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ert Lewis, 1877, lives at Centerville, Alabama; Florence, 1881,
married Mr. McElroy and lives at Bham, Alabama. Henry Bas-
com Buford, married, for his second wife, Annie Laura Barnette,
December, 1889. Children — Homer Franklin, born in 1891, mar¬
ried Cross and lives at 401 Randolph Avenue, Bham, Alabama;
Mary, died; William Larkin, died; Benjamin M., 1895, lives at
1700 South Eleventh Street, Bham, Alabama; Beatrice, 1895,
married Mr. Battles and lives in Centerville, Alabama; Walter
Huston, 1905; Bessie, died; Lelia Belle, 1901; Henry Wilson,
1907. Home, Centerville, Alabama.

9. VIRGINIA, daughter of Larkin W. and Mary B. Buford,
married Stephen W. Frederick in 1870. Children — Mary Ella,
born in 1874; Arthur, 1877.

Virginia Frederick died in 1882. Home, Collirene, Alabama.

9. EMMA LOUISE, daughter of Larkin W. and Mary B.
Buford, married Mumfort De Jarnette in 1875. Emma B. De
Jarnette died in 1878. Home, Collirene, Alabama.

9. JOHN ROBERT, son of Larkin W. and Mary B. Buford,
married Mary Ray, December, 1891. Children — Ida V., born in
1892; Wilneta, 1894; Martha M., 1897.

9. BENJAMIN WADKINS, son of Larkin W. and Mary B.
Buford, married, Pauline Crook.

7. FRANCES, daughter of James and Priscilla R. Buford,
married Ewen Cameron. Son — Ewen, Jr., went to Missouri and
died there.

7. SPENCER, SR., son of James and Priscilla R. Buford,
married, first, December 9, 1801, Elizabeth Giddens, born June

17, 1783. Children — Amelia H., born November 28, 1802, died
November 12, 1840; Francis, May 29, 1804, died October 20,
1824; James, October 16, 1806, died November 1, 1811; William
C., May 29, 1809; Mary, November 2, 1811; Margaret, December

18, 1813, died February, 1816; Thomas, August 18, 1817, died
June 12, 1820; Susan, September 29, 1820. Elizabeth G. Buford
died April 13, 1832, and Spencer, married, second, November 12,

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1835, Mary W. Anthony McClellan, born February 27, 1804,
widow of William McClellan. Children — John W., born August
24, 1836; James A., April 27, 1839; Thomas Spencer, April 14,
1841 ; Sarah Eliza, November 4, 1842; Spencer, Jr., September 6,
1845.

Spencer Buford, Sr., died July 5, 1845. Mary A. Buford died
December 23, 1881.

GIDDENS

Francis, born October 1, 1753, in Virginia, married Mary White
and went to Williamson County, Tennessee, and died there. May 11,
1830. Children — Elizabeth, married Spencer Buford; Sarah, married
Charles Buford; Mary, married James Buford; James, married
Priscilla Buford; Nancy, married Samuel Ward; Frances, married
Rachel Gilchrist and had three children, and after the death of
Frances she married Colonel McConnell and had two daughters and a
a son; Margaret McConnell, died unmarried. Mary White Giddens
had sisters and brothers, Robert White; Chapman, married Martha;
Patsy, married Maury William; Nancy, married Manly; Penelope,
married Ragsdale; Ann, married Ashland.

8. AMELIA H., daughter of Spencer, Sr., and Elizabeth G.
Buford, married Dr. Elijah, son of John Thompson, of North
Carolina, and brother of Elizabeth, who married Gabriel Buford.
(See below.)

Amelia Thompson died childless, November 12, 1840.

8. WILLIAM CALHOUN, son of Spencer and Elizabeth G.
Buford, married, first, May 24, 1839, or 1840, his cousin Harriet,
daughter of Gabriel Buford, born in 1820. Children — Mary
Elizabeth, born in 1841; James Leslie, March 31, 1845; Alice,
May, 1847; William Calhoun, Jr., December, 1849. Harriet Bu¬
ford, died in 1849, and William C. Buford, Sr., married, second,
Nannie Gillespie, in 1850. Children — George Gillespie, born in
1853, and Catherine, 1862.

William Calhoun Buford, Sr., died in 1888, and Nannie
Gillespie Buford died in 1896.

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9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of William C. and Har¬
riet Buford, married, first, in 1861, Rufus Hall and had one
child. Rufus Hall died and Mary B. married, second, C. C. Van
Noy. They have two children and live in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

9. JAMES LESLIE, son of William C., Sr., and Harriet B.
Buford, married, January 9, 1867, Mary Gillespie. Children —
Leslie Winder, born October 17, 1867 ; Maud Ellen, born Decem¬
ber 1, 1869; Gaston Reedy, January 1, 1875; Sarah Mary, No¬
vember 7, 1876; William Howard, February 13, 1880; Michael
Farrell, October 24, 1883, died July 5, 1891.

10. LESLIE WINDER, son of James L. and Mary G. Bu¬
ford, married E. Blanch Stephens, April 5, 1893.

10. MAUD ELLEN, daughter of James L. and Mary G.
Buford, married Lee Webb, November 11, 1891.

9. ALICE, daughter of William C., Jr., and Harriet B. Bu¬
ford, married John N. Wiley, May 24, 1866. They have nine chil¬
dren and live in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

9. WILLIAM CALHOUN, JR., son of William C., Sr., and
Harriet B. Buford, married Alice Dale Duncan. They have eight
children.

9. DR. GEORGE GILLESPIE, son of William Calhoun, Sr.,
and Nannie Gillespie Buford, born in 1853, married in 1881,
Susan Emeline Moss, who was born in 1857. Children — Corinne,
born in 1882; Louise, 1883; Maud, 1885; Lillian, 1887; Mar¬
guerite, 1889; Miriam, 1892; George Gillespie, Jr., 1895; Evelyn,
1897. Susan E. Moss Buford died in 1899, and Dr. G. G. Buford,
married, for his second wife, Mrs. Wilhilmina Hawkins Brevard,
of Huntington, Tennessee. Dr. G. G. Buford is a practicing phy¬
sician, Memphis, Tennessee, 505 Alabama Avenue.

10. CORINNE, daughter of Dr. George G. and Susan Moss
Buford, married Theodore J. Hunn, in 1910. Home, 560 La Clede
Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee.

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10. LOUISE, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss Bu-
. foil’d, is a nurse and employed in the State Department of Health,
Cheyenne, Wyoming.

10. MAUD, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss Buford,
is a nurse, 1000 Corona Street, Denver, Colorado.

10. LILLIAN, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss Bu¬
ford, married Peter A. Deish, in 1910. He is State Senator of
Arkansas. Home, Barton, Arkansas. They have four children —
Dorothy, born in 1911; Peter, 1913; Susan, 1918, and Lillian,
1922.

10. MARGUERITE, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss
Buford, married George W. Webster, in 1912, and has one child
— Marguerite, Jr., born in 1916. Home, 250 North Waldren Ave¬
nue, Memphis, Tennessee.

10. MARIAM, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss Bu¬
ford, married Henry H. Norman. Three children — Henry H.,
Jr., born in 1916; George Buford, 1918, and Louise, 1922.
Home, Hardy, Arkansas.

10. GEORGE GILLESPIE, JR., son of Dr. G. G. and Susan
Moss Buford, is attending Purdue University, West LaFayecte,
Indiana.

10. EVELYN, daughter of Dr. G. G. and Susan Moss Bu¬
ford, married Harry G. Kemker, in 1921. Home, 294 Lewis
Street, Memphis, Tennessee.

9. CATHERINE, daughter of William C. and Nancy Gilles¬
pie Buford, married Daniel Bell Spyker, had four children and
died in 1891.

8. MARY, daughter of Spencer and Elizabeth G. Buford,
married her cousin, Robert J., son of Gabriel Buford. (See Jo-
siah Buford, below.)

8. SUSAN, daughter of Spencer and Elizabeth G. Buford,
married, in 1838, Andrew J., son of Philemon Buford, of South
Carolina, and his second wife, Sarah Smythe. (See Warren Bu¬
ford.)

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8. JOHN W., son of Spencer and Mary McClellan Buford,
married, July 20, 1865, Emma Sidney Byers, whose mother was
a sister of General Albert Sidney Johnson. Children — Emma
Sidney, born September 23, 1868; Mary Howard, January 21,
1870; John W., Jr., September 10, 1871.

John W. Buford died in 1898. He was reared in Williamson
County, Tennessee, received an academic education, graduated
from Lebanon Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
He went to Obion County, Tennessee, and, in 1861, enlisted in
Company H, Ninth Tennessee Infantry, known as the old “Obion
Avalanche. ” Afterwards he transferred to the Sixth Tennessee
Regiment, was wounded and captured at the battle of Perryville,
Kentucky, and held prisoner for several months. When ex¬
changed in 1863, he rejoined his regiment at Shelby ville, Tennes¬
see, and served as lieutenant-colonel until the close of the war.
He returned to Williamson County and practiced law until 1872,
when he went to Jackson. He was mayor of the town for two
years. In April, 1884, he was appointed clerk of the Supreme
Court of the Western District of Tennessee and held this position
until his death.

8. JAMES A., son of Spencer and Mary McClellan Buford,
married, October 8, 1857, Amarilla Baugh. Children — Thomas
W., born September 20, 1858, died August 11, 1875; John W.,
September 8, 1861 ; Mary Elizabeth, February 11, 1866; James P.,
January 18, 1868; Albert Sidney, September 26, 1870; Lazinska
A., June 14, 1873; Robert Lee, April 22, 1876. He lives in
Crockett County, Tennessee.

9. JOHN W., son of James and Amarilla B. Buford, mar¬
ried Laura Harrell. Two children.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of James A. and Ama¬
rilla B. Buford, married March 11, 1883, R. Frank Paston. Five
children.

9. JAMES P., son of James A. and Amarilla B. Buford,
married, December 10, 1890, Elizabeth Jennings.

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8. THOMAS SPENCER, son of Spencer, Sr., and Mary
McClellan Buford, married, August 10, 1859, Sarah Eliza Whit-
sett. Child — Mary, born January 14, 1861.

9. MARY, daughter of Thomas S. and Sarah W. Buford,
married, May 23, 1878, William Mallory. Children — Clarence,
born March 11, 1879; Marie Louise, September, 1881; Willie
James (girl), November 8, 1893.

8. SARAH ELIZA, daughter of Spencer, Sr., and Mary
McClellan Buford, married, February 25, 1858, Matthew F.
Maury. Children — Richard Launcelot, born May 9, 1860; Mary
Spencer, July 4, 1862; Annie Herndon, February 28, 1866; Frank
Cheatham, March 21, 1868; Matthew Fortune, March 19, 1870;
Samuel Perkins, July 7, 1872; Margaretta, December 13, 1874;
Bethenia, February 14, 1877; Clinton Rowland, January 21,
1880; and Florence, January 24, 1883.

9. FRANCIS CHEATHAM, son of Matthew F. and Sarah

B. Maury, married, September 21, 1895, - .

8. SPENCER, JR., son of Spencer, Sr., and Mary McClel¬
lan Buford, married, first, September 13, 1865, Madora Stephen¬
son. Children — William J., born July 27, 1866; Thomas C., Oc¬
tober 20, 1869; Joseph T., October 20, 1871. Madora S. Buford
died, and Spencer, Jr., married, second, July 24, 1873, Mrs. Jen¬
nie Boyd. Children — James S., born June 1, 1874; Lena, Sep¬
tember 22, 1875; John W., December 16, 1876; Gray, November
14, 1878; Enid Pixey, August 26, 1880; Eugene, February 6,
1882; Amarilla, June 17, 1885; Emma Sidney, August 14, 1887 ;
Mary W. and Francis (twins), November 14, 1889.

9. WILLIAM J., son of Spencer, Jr., and Madora S. Bu¬
ford, married, in November, 1892, Mattie Branch. Children —
Saidie Lee, born in September, 1893; Bessie May, May, 1896.

9. JAMES S., son of Spencer, Jr., and Jennie B. Buford,
married, May 23, 1895, Ellen Thomas. Child — Ida May, born
March 8, 1896.

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7. CHARLES, son of James and Priscilla R. Buford, mar¬
ried, October 27, 1804, Sarah T. Giddens, born, September 10,
1786. Children — Mary W., born December 7, 1805; Priscilla R.,
November 22, 1806; Nicholas C., August 7, 1808; Lucinda G., Oc¬
tober 10, 1810; Gilbert, September 14, 1818, died September 30,
1818; Martha M., 1820; Sarah T., April 10, 1822, and Kenzia A.,
September 29, 1826.

8. MARY W., daughter of Charles and. Sarah G. Buford,
married, October 29, 1821, James W. Combs. Children — Frances
E., Elizabeth, Evaline, Ann, Micah, Julia, Mary, James, Henry
and Alice. Frances E., Micah and James only are living.

9. FRANCES E., daughter of James W. and Mary B.
Combs, married, first, Abraham Hosford, of Connecticut. He
died two months after their marriage. Ten years after, she mar¬
ried, second, James L. Holmes. Children by second husband — J.
Sterling, Frederick, died in infancy, Mary Alice, Frances and
Julia, both died in infancy, and Henry. Residence, Iuka, Miss¬
issippi.

10. J. STERLING, son of James L. and Frances E. Holmes,
married Miss Hill. Children — Clara, died in infancy, Robert Lee,
Buford, Julia Addem, died in infancy, Ella, Jimmie (girl) and
Henry. Residence, Iuka, Mississippi.

11. ROBERT LEE, son of J. Sterling and - Hill

Holmes, married Ida Sanders. Residence, Harrisburg, Arkansas.

10. MARY ALICE, daughter of James L. and Frances E.
Holmes, married James Sayer. Five children, two living —
Thomas and Florence.

10. HENRY, son of James L. and Frances E. Holmes, mar¬
ried Miss Michel. Children — Myrtle, John and Roy. Residence,
Harrisburg, Arkansas.

8. PRISCILLA, daughter of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married, first, Dr. Judkins. Children — Joseph and Margaret.
Dr. Judkins died. Priscilla married, second, James Massey. Chil¬
dren — Sarah and Mary (twins) ; the latter died in infancy, and

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Sarah married several times. James Massey died and Priscilla
R. married, third, L. B. McConico. No issue.

9. JOSEPHINE, daughter of Dr. and Priscilla R. Judkins,
married Mr. Keeney, of Pontotoc County, Mississippi. They had
one child, who died in infancy. Mr. Keeney died, and Josephine
married, second, Mr. Egell, of Meridan, Mississippi.

9. MARGARET, daughter of Dr. and Priscilla R. Judkins,
married Mr. Brown. Children — Lucinda, Thomas and William,
all dead.

8. NICHOLAS, C., son of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married, first, June 28, 1832, Ann A. Le Suer. No issue. Ann
died, and Nicholas C. married, second, March 6, 1838, Elizabeth
W. Brandon. Children — Charles, born March 3, 1839 ; Richard
Brandon, November 5, 1840; Elb*'idge Gerry, December 10, 1843:
Lewis Cass, December 23, 1844, killed May 31, 1864, in the Con¬
federate States Army; Irene, December 6, 1846; Lucretia, July
11, 1848; William Abernethy, October 7, 1851, died February 25,
1854; Sarah, August 29, 1853, died June 10, 1863; Thomas, May
25, 1855; Mark, July 11, 1857; Lucy, 1859; Lena May, July 10,
1862; Claude, January 26, 1864, died May 8, 1891.

9. CHARLES, son of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B. Buford,
married, first, in November, 1870, Rose Carter, of Franklin,
Tennessee. Daughter — Mabel, born November 7, 1871. Rose
Carter Buford died in 1872, and Charles married, for second wife,
Ella Stakes, of Lebanon, Tennessee, January, 1884. Children—
Martha Stakes, born in 1884, and Elizabeth, August, 1886.

Charles Buford died August 28, 1886. His family lives in
Davidson County, Tennessee.

9. RICHARD BRANDON, son of Nicholas C. and Eliza¬
beth B. Buford, married Annie Porter, of Nashville, Tennessee,
died January 23, 1890, Birmingham, Alabama. No children.

9. ELBRIDGE GERRY, son of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth
B. Buford, married, February 6, 1869, Belinda D. Miller, who
was born October 23, 1844. Son — John Miller, born in July,

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1870, died November 23, 1895. Balinda Miller Buford died De¬
cember 7, 1874, and Elbridge Gerry, married, for his second wife,
Mary Elizabeth Burgess, December 25, 1884, who was born April
26, 1849.

He died in July, 1919, and she died in 1920. They were the
founders of Buford College, Nashville, Tennessee, which was suc¬
cessfully run for more than 35 years and closed in 1920, after the
death of Mr. and Mrs. Buford. He was regent and his wife pres¬
ident. Buford College, higher culture, strictly select, enrollment
limited to one hundred young women. The college records em¬
brace more than thirty states and five nations, including 14
schools of study. Mrs. Buford, it was conceded, had no superior
in the United States as an instructor. Ripe in culture, rich in ex¬
perience, she gave herself unreservedly. Personal service,
character building, moral, religious and intellectual training were
not neglected. Buford College, from the first, ranked as a peer
of learning in the “Athens of the South.” “Beaufort” stands for
“Strength and Beauty,” uniform development of “Body and Soul”
—only The Best of the Best.”

The main College Building, the Cottage and Burgess Hall
stand on twenty-five acres of ground. The location is ideal, sev¬
eral miles from city and reached by trolley, in the beautiful valley
of the Cumberland.

9. LUCRETIA, daughter of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B.
Buford, married, February 6, 1879, George S. White. Children —
Annie, born June, 1880; Lizzie Brandon, June 23, 1882, died
August 31, 1884; George S., Jr., December 16, 1883.

Lucretia Buford White died in December, 1921.

9. THOMAS, son of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B. Buford,,
married, July 14, 1885, Martha Hall, of Kentucky, living in St.
Louis, Missouri.

9. MARK, son of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B. Buford,
married, December 31, 1889, Alice M., daughter of Caleb and
Elizabeth Osborn. Children — Caleb Osborn, born October 16,

1890, died February 8, 1891; Elizabeth Media, August 14, 1892,
and Mark Nicholas, October 30, 1896. They live in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

Mark Buford died in 1922.

10. ELIZABETH M., daughter of Mark and Alice M. 0.
Buford, married De Lacy Abernathy, March 19, 1919. Children
— Buford Denty, born February 3, 1920, and De Lacy, Jr., July
24, 1923.

10. MARK NICHOLAS, son of Mark and Alice M. O.
Buford, served in the World War. He enlisted April 18, 1917, in
Second Division, Seventeenth Field Artillery, A. E. F., Army of
Occupation.

9. LUCY, daughter of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B. Buford,
married Dr. Grant, of Pulaski, Tennessee. Daughter — Gertrude.

10. GERTRUDE, daughter of Dr. and Lucy Buford Grant,
married Albert Bayless (see James Buford, Jr.).

9. LENA MAY, daughter of Nicholas C. and Elizabeth B.
Buford, married Thomas M. Jones, May 3, 1882. Children —
Lena May, born March 3, 1883; Buford, February 18, 1885; Wil¬
liam R., February 18, 1887.

8. LUCINDA G., daughter of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married W. S. S. Clark, October 30, 1830. Children — Charles
William, Mary, Edward and Joseph, all died young except Mary.

9. MARY, daughter of W. S. S. and Lucinda Clark, married
Mr. Killough. Son — Buford. Home, Dallas, Texas.

8. MARTHA M., daughter of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married, November 26, 1833, C. C. Hardy, Lunenburg County,
Virginia. (See Catherine, daughter of Henry and Frances.)
Children — James, died young, Ann, Mary, Charles, died young,
Emma, married and died, Caroline, died young, and Philip.

9. ANN, daughter of C. C. and Martha B. Hardy, married
Mr. Thurston and went to Kansas or Nebraska.

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8. SARAH T., daughter of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married J. Nelson Patterson, February 29, 1839. Children — Re¬
becca, Ada, Tony and Mack.

9. REBECCA, daughter of J. Nelson and Sarah Buford
Patterson, married and went to Paris, Texas, and her husband
died.

9. ADA, daughter of J. Nelson and Sarah Buford Patterson,
married and also went to Paris, Texas, and her husband died.

8. KEZIA A., daughter of Charles and Sarah G. Buford,
married, February 7, 1884, W. G. McCord. Children — Benjamin,
Linclset, Charles, William, Eugenia, Ella and Morgan, died young.

9. EUGENIA married Mr. Noble.

9. CHARLES married and had a daughter, Daisy, who is
living with her Aunt Ella at Pulaski, Tennessee.

7. CHARLOTTE, daughter of James, Sr., and Priscilla R.
Buford, married, first, Somerset Moore, of Giles County, Ten¬
nessee. Children — Three girls and one son, James. Married,
second, Mr. Hicks, had one daughter, and married a third time.

7. JAMES, JR., son of James and Priscilla R. Buford, mar¬
ried, October 8, 1812, Mary (Polly) Giddens, born October 5,
1790. Children — Thomas, born October 15, 1813; Albert, March
23, 1815; Eliza, October 21, 1816; William, May 8, 1819; James
3d, January 10, 1821 ; Margaret, December 27, 1824, died Janu¬
ary 14, 1826; John, October 19, 1827, died May 2, 1856, never
married ; Abram, December 22, 1829 ; Edward, November 27,
1832, lived in Arkansas, unmarried.

James Buford, Jr., died February 5, 1849. Polly G. Buford
died October 5, 1853.

8. THOMAS, son of James, Jr., and Polly G. Buford, mar¬
ried, first, his cousin, Mary, daughter of Spencer Buford. She
lived one year after their marriage. He married, second, August
6, 1839, Mary Ann Elizabeth Gordon. Children — Mary Eliza¬
beth, born June 27, 1841 ; James Thomas, September, 1864,
died a soldier in the Confederate States Army, at Cor-

inth, Mississippi, June 18, 1862; Sarah Louisa, October 20,
1848; Francis Giddens, December 13,1851; William Wallace,
April 5, 1854, died January 26, 1864; Annie Gordon, October 23,
1856 ; Edward, October 30, 1858.

Thomas Buford represented Giles County in the Twenty-
eighth Assembly, in 1849, and in the Thirtieth Assembly, in 1853.
He was a public-spirited and progressive man and first president
of the old Nashville & Decatur Railroad. He died February 12,
1860. Mary Gordon, his wife, died August 18, 1890.

9. MARY ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas and Mary G.
Buford, married, in 1863, Captain David Rhea. Children —
Thomas, born in 1864, died; Clifford, 1866; Annie, 1868; David,
1870; Francis Giddens, 1873, died October 23, 1896; Elizabeth,
1875, died; Joseph Campbell, 1877; Louisa Buford, 1880; Mary
Sumpter, 1881.

David Rhea was a captain in the Confederate States Army
and was drowned in 1882. His wife lives at Buford, Tennessee,
with her children, David, Louise and Mary. Clifford and Joseph
C. live in Kansas City, Missouri.

10. ANNIE, daughter of Captain David and Mary Eliza¬
beth Buford Rhea, married William P. Dabney, June 26, 1890.
Son — Robert Rhea, born in 1892.

9. SARAH LOUISA, daughter of Thomas and Mary Gordon
Euford, married, October 20, 1868, John Ewin Goodwin. Child¬
ren — Mary Louisa, born August 19, 1869; Rosette Fowler, Octo¬
ber 14, 1870; Thomas Buford, July 25, 1872; George Bennett,
November 22, 1873; Helen May, September 1, 1875; Anne, Feb¬
ruary 17, 1878; Elizabeth Buford, January 16, 1880; William
Minter, October 30, 1881 ; Alice Ewin, November 2, 1884; Harold,
January 7, 1887; John Ewin, Jr., May 1, 1888, died May 2, 1888.

Sarah Louisa Goodwin died May 2, 1888. Residence of
children, Nashville, Tennessee. George Bennett Goodwin resides
at Toledo, Ohio.

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9. FRANCIS GIDDENS, son of Thomas and Mary Gordon
Buford, married, first, in 1879, Bena Childers. Children —
Amanda Pointer, born in 1880; Mary Gordon, 1882, died; Bena
C. Buford, died in 1884. Francis Giddens Buford married, sec¬
ond, Corinne Cannon, January 2, 1895. Son — Francis Cannon,
born January 23, 1896.

9. ANNIE GORDON, daughter of Thomas and Mary Gor¬
don Buford, married, in 1881, Terry Dickerson. Children —
Lorna Burns, born June 26, 1885; Edward Buford, September,
1888; Annie Louise, January, 1892; Rebecca Breward, October
1, 1896, Lynnville, Tennessee.

9. EDWARD, son of Thomas and Mary Gordon Buford,
married, March 25, 1891, Mary Florence Brown, daughter of
Dr. Owen Venable and Courtney Elizabeth Buford Brown (see
William, of James, Jr., below).

8. ALBERT, son of James, Jr., and Polly Giddens Buford,
married, first, Delia Taylor. Children — Gilbert Taylor, Lazinska,
Mary, died when seventeen years of age; Delia and James 4th.
Delia Taylor Buford died, and Albert married, second, Miss
Clara L. Reid. Children — Albert, Jr., born October 18, 1855;
William H., 1857 ; Anne Dougles, 1859 ; May, 1861 ; Thomas, 1870 ;
Clara, 1873.

Albert Buford died February 10, 1878.

TAYLOR

Elizabeth Hamilton (see James Buford 3d) and Delia (see Al¬
bert Buford, above) were daughters of Gilbert D. Taylor, who married
Delia McCormick. Both these families were very early settlers and
prominent in Giles County. Dr. Taylor was a preacher and physician
and a soldier in the Creek War of 1813. Mention is made of him in
McCullum’s “Manuscript History of Giles County/’ now in the custody
of the Historical Society in Nashville, Tennessee.

He built the first frame house in this county. People used to go
miles and miles to see it as a curiosity. The lumber was all whip-
sawed out by his slaves before the day of sawmills. The old place
is now owned by John T. Allen. It is three miles north of Pulaski,
Tennessee, on the west side of the Columbia and Pulaski Pike. The

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house was burned some years ago. The old graveyard is on a little
wooded knoll back of the house and garden, in a beech grove.

Dr. Gilbert D., son of Captain John Taylor, born October 26,
1760, married Ann Gilbert. John was a lieutenant in the Continental
Line, served in the State Convention Guards from January 18, 1779,
to January 15, 1781, when the regiment was disbanded. This made
Lieutenant Taylor a supernumerary officer entitled to pay and
bounty lands for service to the end of the war. A warrant was issued,
in 1832* for two thousand, six hundred and sixty-six acres of land to
him in trust, which was delivered to J. C. Taylor in 1834. By an act
of Congress, May 30, 1834, he was granted five years’ full pay and
was paid sixteen hundred dollars. John was the fifth son of Erasmus,
who married Jane Moore. He was the son of James 2d, who married
Martha Thompson. Their son Richard married Sarah Strother.
Sons — Zachary, President and general; Joseph, many years quarter¬
master general of the army. General Zachary’s daughter, Sarah
Knox, married Jefferson Davis. Another son of James 2d had many
sons, some of them Revolutionary officers. James 1st, father of
James 2d, came from Carlisle, England, and settled on the Chesa¬
peake Bay, 1698.

9. GILBERT TAYLOR, son of Albert, Sr., and Delia Taylor
Buford, married Elizabeth Watkins, of Huntsville, Alabama.
Children — Lawrence and Gilbert, Jr.

Gilbert Taylor Buford died in 1883.

9. LAZINSKA, daughter of Albert, Sr., and Delia Taylor
Buford, married Thomas M. Topp, and had several children.
Residence, Colton, California.

9. DELIA, daughter of Albert, Sr., and Delia Taylor
Buford, married W. Berry Baylies, of Nashville, Tennessee.

10. ALBERT, son of W. Berry and Delia B. Baylies, mar¬
ried Gertrude Grand, granddaughter of Nicholas C. Buford (see
above).

9. ALBERT, JR., son of Albert, Sr., and Clara Lindley
Reed Buford, born in Giles County, Tennessee, October 26, 1855,
married Mattie Bowling Rivers at Pulaski, Tennessee, April 4,
1877. Mattie Bowling Rivers was the youngest daughter of Rev.
Dr. Richard Henderson Rivers and his wife, Martha Bowling Cox
Jones Rivers. Dr. Rivers’ mother was a daughter of Samuel
Henderson and his wife, Betsey Calloway, of Kentucky. Martha

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Bowling Cox Jones Rivers was a great-granddaughter of Thomas
Eldredge and his wife, Martha Bowling Eldredge. Martha Bowl¬
ing was a daughter of John Bowling, who was a great-grandson
of John Rolf and his wife, Rebecca Pocahontas, daughter of Pow¬
hatan. Children — Rivers Henderson, born January 18, 1878;
Albert Lindley, December 22, 1879 ; Ethel, October 28, 1887 ;
William Mac., June 15, 1889.

Albert Buford, Jr., is commonly known as “Allie,” who, with
his wife and two children, Rivers and Lindley, moved from Giles
County, Tennessee, to Calhoun County, Florida, January 1, 1882.

10. RIVERS HENDERSON, son of Albert, Jr., and Mattie
Bowling Rivers Buford, married Nora Lee Milliken, of Nashville,
Tennessee, June 12, 1901, who died May 11, 1902. Rivers H. mar¬
ried, for his second wife, Mary C. Munroe, daughter of Dr.
Thomas Freeman and Martha H. Munroe, of Quincy, Florida.
September 14, 1904. Of this union seven children have been born,
of whom four are now living, namely — Martha Hauze, born
August 27, 1906; Maxine Francis, November 11, 1908; Alice Dis-
mukes, September 26, 1910; Albert Lewis, September 30, 1913;
also adopted Bertha, daughter of Albert Lindley and his wife,
Bertha Hatton Buford, on January 20, 1911, when her mother
died in giving her birth.

Rivers Henderson Buford was educated in the public schools
of Florida with the exception of two years in the public schools
of Giles County, Tennessee, 1895-1897 ; was admitted to practice
law in Florida, November, 1900; was a member of legislature of
Florida, 1901, as representative from Calhoun County; prosecut¬
ing attorney of Gadsden County, 1909-1911; state’s attorney in
the Ninth Judicial Circuit, 1912-1915, when the 14th Judicial Cir¬
cuit was formed, which office he held until assuming the office of
Attorney General of Florida, January 4, 1921.

10. ALBERT LINDLEY, son of Albert, Jr., and Mattie
Bowling Rivers Buford, married Bertha Hatton, December 7,
1904. Two children living — Mattie Clair, born June 10, 1908,

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and Bertha, January 20, 1911, at which time her mother died.
Albert Lindley married, for his second wife, Henrietta Pracilla
Lyles, Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 31, 1916, of which
union two children are living — Sarah Louise, born June 9, 1918,
and Ethel Douglas, February 22, 1922. Albert Lindley Buford
is farm foreman, Pennsylvania Sugar Company, Miami, Florida.

10. ETHEL, daughter of Albert, Jr., and Mattie Bowling
Rivers Buford, married Norman Campbell, of Chatham, Canada,
at Marianna, Florida, February 12, 1913, and resides in Nash¬
ville, Tennessee.

10. WILLIAM MAC, son of Albert, Jr., and Mattie Bowl¬
ing Rivers Buford, married Nancy Louise Case of Chattanooga,
Tennessee, in 1917, to which union three children were born and
are living — Will Albert, born July 27, 1919; Martin Rivers,
August, 1920, and Ethel Louise, May, 1922.

9. WILLIAM H., son of Albert, Sr., and Clara L. Reed
Buford, married, first, Miss Bramblett, in 1886. Two children —
Louise, living. - Bramblett Buford died. William H., mar¬

ried, for his second wife, Miss Clark. They have two sons — Wil¬
liam H., Jr., born January 2, 1898, and M. P., who also is mar¬
ried.

9. MAY, daughter of Albert, Sr., and Clara L. Reed Bu¬
ford, married Dr. William Paschal. Children — Hillard, Buford
and May.

9. THOMAS, son of Albert, Sr., and Clara L. Reed Buford,
married Susan Rhea. Child — Robert E., died in 1897. Home,
Memphis, Tennessee.

9. CLARA, daughter of Albert, Sr., and Clara L. Reed Bu¬
ford, married E. 0. Tate.

8. ELIZA, daughter of James, Jr., and Polly Giddens Bu¬
ford, married W. W. Wingfield, September 6, 1836. Daughter —
Mary E., born November 9, 1837.

Eliza B. Wingfield, died in 1890.

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9. MARY E., daughter of W. W. and Eliza B. Wingfield,
married R. W. Hall, March 25, 1836. Children — Sudie Christian,
born January 6, 1857 ; Mary B., March 13, 1859; Samuel William,
August 5, 1860, died October 16, 1862; Robert Walker, June 19,
1863, and William Wingfield, January 14, 1866.

10. SUDIE CHRISTIAN, daughter of R. W. and Mary B.
Hall, married William Clark Buford, son of Abraham Buford
(see below) .

10. MARY B., daughter of R. W. and Mary B. Hall, mar¬
ried J. J. Hayter, October, 1878. Children — Samuel Buford, born
August 25, 1879; Floyd May, January, 1881, died in 1882; Sudie
Fay, September, 1883; Robert Hall, 1885.

Mary Buford Hayter died June 28, 1920, at Sealy Hospital
Galveston, Texas.

11. SAMUEL BUFORD, son of J. J. and Mary Buford
Hayter, married Miss Penelope Martin, in 1915. Three children
— Martha Buford, Penelope and Mary Elizabeth. Home, Nacog¬
doches, Texas.

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11. SUDIE FAY, daughter of J. J. and Mary Buford Hay¬
ter, married Guy A. Blount, at Nacogdoches, Texas. Children —
Elizabeth and Mamie Ethel.

Sudie Fay H. Blount, died August 5, 1921.

10. ROBERT WALKER, son of R. W. and Mary B. Hah,
married Sarah Neal.

8. WILLIAM, son of James, Jr., and Polly Giddens Buford,
married Courtney Selves Gordon, October 30, 1842. Children —
Courtney Elizabeth, born January 13, 1838; Mary Margaert, No¬
vember 15, 1843; Florence, October 30, 1845; Helen, May 3, 1850.

William Buford died in September, 1845. His wife married
a second time and died several years ago.

9. COURTNEY ELIZABETH, daughter of William and
Courtney G. Buford, married Dr. Owen Venable Brown, in 1869.
Children — Katherine, born November 17, 1871; Mary Florence,
March 18, 1873; Louise, January 18, 1875; Elizabeth, March 19,

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1877; Courtney Elizabeth, March 13, 1879; Owen Venable, No¬
vember 23, 1880 ; William Newton, December 4, 1882, died in
1883.

Dr. Brown died in 1882. Resided at Buford, Tennessee.

10. MARY FLORENCE, daughter of Dr. 0. V. and Court¬
ney B. Brown, married Edward, son of Thomas Buford (see
above) .

9. MARY MARGARET, daughter of William and Courtney
G. Buford, married Alexander Black, January 26, 1864. Chil¬
dren — May Sevels, born December 15, 1864; Elizabeth, May 9,
1867 ; Margaret, August 8, 1871 ; Florence, August 3, 1873 ; Alex¬
ander, November 3, 1876.

Mary Margaret Buford died September 11, 1878. Her
husband died the same year.

10. MAY S., daughter of Alexander and Mary B. Black,
married John Alfred Hollins, May 7, 1884. Children — Mary
Margaret, born May, 1885 ; Courtney White, May 19, 1887 ; Rob¬
ert Alexander, January 27, 1890; Elizabeth Buford, February 10,
1892. Residence, De Ray, Tennessee.

10. ELIZABETH, daughter of Alexander and Mary B.
Black, married, December 14, 1887, William Brown. Son — Wil¬
liam Wirt Buford (see below).

10. MARGARET, daughter of Alexander and Mary B.
Black, married, May 4, 1892, Eugene Erwin Anderson. Resi¬
dence, Americus, Georgia.

10. FLORENCE, daughter of Alexander and Mary B.
Black, married, March 19, 1895, Henry G. Maury. Daughter —
Florence Elise, born June 30, 1896. Residence, Nashville, Ten¬
nessee.

9. FLORENCE, daughter of William and Courtney G. Bu¬
ford, married, March 23, 1863, James Short. Children — Lillie,
born November 17, 1864; William Buford, January 6, 1867;
Helen, December 25, 1869, died; Turner, January 5, 1874; James,

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July 10, 1877; Louise Goodwin, September 12, 1879; George,
April 25, 1882. Residence, Pulaski, Tennessee.

10. LILLIE, daughter of James and Florence B. Short,
married, October 28, 1885, Samuel Rogers. Son — James, born
May 22, 1892. Residence, Wales, Tennessee.

9. HELEN, daughter of William and Courtney G. Buford,
married, March 5, 1872, Dr. J. T. Grant. Children — Laura
White, born December 4, 1872; Gertrude, December 2, 1875;
Mary Holland, October 13, 1879; William Buford, January 13,
1884; Harriet, November 3, 1886. Residence, Pulaski, Ten¬
nessee.

10. GERTRUDE, daughter of Dr. J. T. and Helen Buford
Grant, married, October 16, 1895, Albert Buford Baylies (see
above, Delia, of Albert Buford). Residence, Nashville, Ten¬
nessee.

8. JAMES, son of James, Jr., and Polly Giddens Buford,
married Elizabeth Hamilton Taylor, sister of Delia, the wife of
Albert Buford (see above, and also see Taylor, above). Chil¬
dren — Delia McCormick, born September 24, 1860; Mary Gid¬
dens, November 24, 1862; Frances Bell, June 11, 1865; Annie Gil¬
bert, April 30, 1867 ; Elise, November 29, 1869.

James Buford died March 17, 1874. Residence of his fam¬
ily, San Bernardino, California.

9. DELIA McCORMICK, daughter of James and Elizabeth
T. Buford, married, November 8, 1883, E. D. Elliot, of Mary¬
land. Children — Buford, Edwin, Marion, Frances and Delia.
Residence, San Bernardino, California.

9. MARY GIDDENS, daughter of James and Elizabeth T.
Buford, married, April 7, 1885, Henry Conner, of Illinois. No
children. Residence, San Bernardino, California.

9. FRANCES BELL, daughter of James and Elizabeth T.
Buford, married, September 3, 1883, F. L. Brown, of California.
No children. Residence, San Bernardino, California.

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8. ABRAHAM or Abram, son of James, Jr., and Polly
Giddens Buford, married, December 22, 1852, Elvira Bryan.
Children — William Clark, born March 7, 1854; Mary Charlotte,
August, 1857, died in April, 1873; Edward, 1859, died in 1866;
Charles Beauregard, 1861, died in 1866; Ada and Viola, Novem¬
ber 2, 1866 (Ada died November 5, 1888) ; Katie Lee, 1869, died
in 1889.

Abram Buford died January 6, 1889. Mrs. Buford’s resi¬
dence is Henderson, Texas.

9. IDA VIOLA, daughter of Abram and Elvira Bryan
Buford, married September 27, 1902, Dr. J. E. Dodson at Vernon,
Texas, who died April 24, 1921. No children.

9. WILLIAM CLARK, son of Abram and Elvira B. Buford,
married, in 1879, Sudie Christina Hall, granddaughter of Eliza
Buford (see above). Children — Robert Abram, born February
24, 1881 ; Mary Gladys, September 15, 1883 ; Elvira, November

I 1, 1885; William Walker, February 11, 1889; Donna Elise, Janu¬
ary 1, 1892; Chastalette, April 12, 1894. Home, Henderson,
Texas.

Judge William Clark Buford died at Henderson, Texas, Sep¬
tember 17, 1916. He was judge of the judicial district of Texas
at the time of his death and had held this office for twelve years.

10. ROBERT ABRAM, son of William Clark and Sudie
Hall Buford, married Christine Littlefield at Austin, Texas.
Son — Robert Littlefield. Home, Enfield Addition, Austin, Texas.

10. MARY GLADYS, daughter of William Clark and Sudie
Hall Buford, married Earle C. Douglas, of Tyler, Texas, June 10,
1906, who was third son of Major James P. Douglas, commander
of the Douglas, Texas, Battery, Army of Northern Tennessee,
C. S. A. Children — Earle C., Jr., born September 1, 1911 ; James
Buford, December 31, 1915. Residence, Houston, Texas.

9. EDWARD, son of James, Jr., and Polly Giddens Buford,
married Laura, daughter of Rev. Edward Baptist, an eminent
divine, and a founder of the University of Richmond College and

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trustee of the University of Alabama. He married a Miss
Eggleston, a daughter of Judge Eggleston, of the Supreme
Court of Illinois. A sister of Rev. Edward Baptist was
the mother of General A. P. Hill, of Virginia. Children
— Edward Powhatan, born in 1868; James William, 1870.
Mrs. Buford and her two sons reside in San Antonio, Texas.
Edward Baptist was divorced from his wife and married
again in Van Zandt County, Texas.

7. EDWARD, SR., son of James and Priscilla Ragsdale
Buford, born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, May 15, 1787, mar¬
ried Rebecca P., daughter of Byrd Buford. Children — Narcissa
R., born October 10, 1810, died May 23, 1822; Priscilla H., March
12, 1812, died May 23, 1822; James T., December 19, 1813, died
young; Elizabeth A., April 23, 1815; Mary Frances, December
29, 1816, died ;lwilliam Wirt, December 6, 1818; Emily R., Sep¬
tember 28, 1820, died May 12, 1839; Sarah Louise, August 11,
1822. Rebecca P. Buford died July 8, 1825. Edward, Sr., mar¬
ried, for second wife, Amanda, daughter of James and Sarah
Pugh, of North Carolina, who survived him, and married, for
second husband, Gabriel, son of Josiah Buford (see below).

Edward Buford settled in Williamson County, Tennessee,^
where all his children were born. He died July 10, 1828, and was
buried there with his first wife. The homestead is now owned by
Charles, son of William Wirt Buford.

8. ELIZAEETH, daughter of Edward and Rebecca P. Bu¬
ford, married William T. North and died, leaving no children.

8. WILLIAM WIRT, son of Edward, Sr., and Rebecca P.
Buford, married, first, November 24, 1840, Eleanor Ray Pointer.
Children — Edward 2d, born April 4, 1842; John Thomas, July
20, 1845; Mary Emma, June 23, 1847, died August 6, 1854;
Henry Pointer, June 20, 1850; William Henry, June 8, 1852, died
August 22, 1854; Charles N._, March 28, 1854, died in Nashville,
Tennessee, July 19, 1921; Eleanor Louise, Deceuber 2,

1856. Eleanor Ray Buford died December 11, 1856.

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William Wirt married, second, September 28, 1858, Ellen L.
Stephenson. Children — William Brown, July 4, 1859; Katherine
Julia, July 2, 1861, died in 1887 ; Joseph Rebecca, November 1,
1863, died November 7, 1888; Florence May, November 10, 1865,
died October 12, 1867 ; Irene Mayes, May 21, 1873.

William Wirt Buford died September 11, 1888.

9. EDWARD 2d, son of William Wirt and Eleanor Ray

Pointer Buford, married in Nashville, Tennessee, November 9,
1875, Lizinka Elliston, Children — -Elizabeth Elliston, born
March 22, 1880; Eleanor Ray, May 19, 1882; Louis Yandell, No¬
vember 11, 1885, died May 30, 1887 ; Mildred, September 22,
1890; Edward 3d, February 19, 1892, all in Nashville. As a
country boy of 19 years, joined the Confederate States Army on
April 16, 1861, and followed the fortunes of the South until Gen¬
eral Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the remnane of the Confed¬
erate Army at Salisbury, North Carolina, in May, 1865, reaching
home July 7, 1865, and for 58 years has been actively engaged in ,
business. Edward Buford 2d and brother, Brown Buford, have a
large store, Buford Brothers, Iron and Steel, Carriage and Wagon
Makers, Tools and Supplies. Lizinka Elliston died in Nashville,
Tennessee, March 2^1919. ^ ^ JZ ( i y <? / )

10. ELIZABETH ELLISTON, daughter of Edward 2nd
and Lizinka Elliston Buford, married, January 22, 1907, Arthur

F. Evens. Mr. Evens was a prominent attorney at law in Chi¬
cago, Illinois; died April 12, 1911, in Washington, District of

Columbia, of pneumonia.

10. ELEANOR ROY, daughter of Edward 2nd and Lizinka
Elliston Buford, married, December 19, 1907, Herbert V. Jones,
of Kansas City, Missouri. He is an active and successful real
estate dealer. Children — Eleanor Buford, Herbert Vincent and
Edward Buford Jones.

10. MILDRED, daughter of Edward 2d and Lizinka Ellis¬
ton Buford, married Marcellus B. Frost, April 21, 1915. No
children. Mr. Frost is president and owner of the Frost, Kohn

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& Frost Advertising Agency in Chicago, Illinois, with branch
offices in Detroit, Cleveland, New York, St. Louis and Atlanta.
He is also president and owner of the Tennessee Bakeries Com¬
pany in Nashville, Tennessee, where his family resides.

10. Captain Edward 3d was one of the best aviators of the
World War, and was distinguished as a hero. Volunteered May,
1917, Camp Rantoul, Illinois. He wears the ribbons of
three decorations which he won for gallantry in action —
two gold chevrons on his left sleeve, though he lacked but a month
of being entitled to another, as he saw seventeen months’ service
in France. He also wears the shoulder insignia of the First
Army. Captain Buford is officially credited with downing only
three Hun planes, but really has to his credit eight, five of them
unofficially recognized, because they were brought down so far
over the German lines no official report could be made, which is
but strong proof of the courage and daring of the man who chased
his victims so far back into their own territory. The Dis¬
tinguished Service Cross was awarded him May, 1918, when he
routed five German planes single-handed at the Toul sector. The
Croix de Guerre, with the palm, he won for shooting down two
Hun planes in flames at Marne-Aisne. The Legion of Honor
Cross, the highest decoration honor bestowed by the French gov¬
ernment, was awarded for general work around Chateau Thierry.
His squadron, 95th, was in charge the day young Theodore
Roosevelt was killed. Captain Buford was offered the honor of
courier at the Peace Conference, which meant he would carry
messages between the conference at Paris and Berlin, Vienna,
Brussels, London and other European capitals, but this he de¬
clined. He was unhurt in service, but had a severe attack of
“flu” and was in a hospital in France several months. Returned
home March 16, 1919. Now in business with his father in Nash¬
ville, Tennessee.

9. JOHN THOMAS, son of William Wirt and Eleanor Ray
Pointer Buford, married Sarah E. Armstrong, December 4, 1877.

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Children — Thomas Armstrong, born October 27, 1878; William
Wirth, April 13, 1881.

John T. Buford died December 27, 1910, and his wife died in
1882, Williamson County, Tennessee.

10. THOMAS ARMSTRONG, son of John Thomas and
Sarah E. Armstrong Buford, married Lillian Mae Morris, of
Paris, Henry County, Tennessee, in 1909. They have one son,
Thomas Armstrong, Jr.

10. WILLIAM WIRTH, son of John Thomas and Sarah E.
Armstrong, married Lillian A. Thornburgh, of St. Louis, Decem¬
ber 26, 1889, who died June 26, 1899. They had no children. W.
W. Buford is now in San Francisco, California, Schlueter Electric
Washers and Vacuum Cleaners. Served in World War.

9. HENRY POINTER, son of William Wirt and Eleanor
Ray Pointer Buford, married, April 4, 1878, Annie W. Hollins.
No children. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, in October, 1885.

9. ELEANOR LOUISE, daughter of William Wirt and
Eleanor Ray Pointer Buford, married June 12, 1883, William V.
Wilson. No children. February, 1913. He is a lawyer and lives
in Lynchburg, Virginia.

9. WILLIAM BROWN, son of William W. and Ellen L. S.
Buford, married Elizabeth Black, granddaughter of William Bu¬
ford (see below). Children — Helen P., born September 17, 1889;
Charles Dudley, February 8, 1891, died September 22, 1891 ; Mar¬
garet, July 17, 1894, Nashville, Tennessee.

9. IRENE MAYES, daughter of William Wirt and Ellen L.
S. Buford, married, in 1895, H. I. Pantall, Thompson Station,
Tennessee.

8. SARAH LOUISE, daughter of Edward and Rebecca P.
Buford, married, August 4, 1840, William H. Pointer. Children
— Edward Henry, born in 1841, killed in Confederate States
Army, in 1864; Elizabeth Wilmot, 1845.

Sarah Louise Pointer died on August 9, 1849.

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9. ELIZABETH WILMOT, daughter of William H. and
Sarah Louise Pointer, married James McGavock, of Fort Ches-
well, Virginia. Children — Edward H. and Claude.

Elizabeth died in 1894.

7. PRISCILLA, daughter of James and Priscilla R. Buford,
married James Giddens, bom October 4, 1784. Children —
Louise Augusta, born December 31, 1806; Amanda, September 3,
1808 ; Marcus Tullius, August 8, 1810, died September 30, 1824 ;
Mary White, 1812; Sarah, July 31, 1814; James Monroe, March
23, 1816, and Priscilla Buford, March 18, 1818.

8. LOUISA AUGUSTA, daughter of James and Priscilla
B. Giddens, married John T. Moss.

8. AMANDA, daughter of James and Priscilla B. Giddens,
married Joseph Henry Fry. Son — J. T. Fry.

Amanda died about a year after marriage.

9. J. T. FRY, son of Joseph and Amanda G. Fry, married,
first, May L. Williams. Two children, both dead. Married, sec¬
ond, Emily Reese Talbot. Children — Talbot Lee (girl), Charles,
Ferdinand, Aileen. Married, third, Anna Marie Gayle (or
Zayle). Galveston, Texas.

8. MARY WHITE, daughter of James and Priscilla B. Gid¬
dens, married Thomas Moss.

8. SARAH, daughter of James and Priscilla B. Giddens,
married William Moss. Children, Edwin, died young, Eveline,
Martha and William.

Sarah G. Moss died September 30, 1862.

John T., Thomas and William Moss were brothers.

9. MARTHA, daughter of William and Sarah G. Moss,
married Dr. Kennedy.

8. JAMES MONROE, son of James and Priscilla B. Gid¬
dens, married October 9, 1894, Caroline, daughter of Matthew
Tomlinson.

8. PRISCILLA BUFORD, daughter of James and Priscilla
B. Giddens, married, May 5, 1835, Albert Robert Cartwright,

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born August 14, 1806. Children — Sarah Elizabeth, born Febru¬
ary 6, 1836; Marcus Tullius, June 28, 1838, died March 10, 1864;
Mary Frances, September 20, 1840, died October 27, 1841;
Charles David, November 16, 1842, died April 2, 1885; Albert
Minick, February 14, 1845; Neil Brown, August 17, 1847; Mon¬
roe Giddens, May 7, 1850; Emily Irene, February 10, 1853; Wil¬
liam Edwin, October 4, 1855, and James Buford, May 26, 1858.

9. SARAH ELIZABETH, daughter of Albert R. and
Priscilla B. G. Cartwright, married, February 19, 1856, D. T.
Chappell, who died December 29, 1893.

9. ALBERT MINICK, son of Albert R. and Priscilla B. G.
Cartwright, married, December 1, 1871, Elizabeth Ann Hara-
way.

9. NEIL BROWN, son of Albert R. and Priscilla B. G.
Cartwright, married, November 1, 1868, Eliza Camilla Harawav.

9. MONROE GIDDENS, son of Albert R. and Priscilla B.
G. Cartwright, married, December 1, 1871, Laura Annett Cross.

9. WILLIAM EDWIN, son of Albert and Priscilla B. G.
Cartwright, married, September 18, 1883, Mary Ellen Spence:*.

9. JAMES BUFORD, son of Albert R. and Priscilla B. G.
Cartwright, married Alice Charity Townsend, December 3, 1879.

7. CATHERINE, daughter of James and Priscilla R. Bu¬
ford, married Mr. Mebane and died without issue.

BUFORD

CHAPTER XVI.

6. LE ROY AND FRANCES RAGSDALE BUFORD

6. LE ROY, son of Henry and Frances Buford, of Bruns¬
wick Parish, Amelia County, Virginia, married Frances Rags¬
dale. Children — John Ragsdale, born July 5, 1779; Robert,
March 3, 1783; Polly, 1785; Patience, 1787; Miles, April 1, 1789,
and Susan, 1791.

Le Roy went from Lunenburg County, Virginia, to Chester
District, South Carolina, where he died and was buried at Fisher
Creek Meeting House.

7. JOHN RAGSDALE, son of Le Roy and Frances R. Bu¬
ford, born in Chester County, South Carolina, married, December
25, 1804, Esther, daughter of Mark Eaves, whose wife was born
Holliday. A short time after marrying, they went to Fayette
County, Tennessee. Children — William D., born November 30,
1805; Jefferson, August 17, 1807; Didomia, October 27, 1809;
Jemimia S., November 16, 1811; John Osmond Holliday, June
12, 1814; Patience Emiline, December 14, 1816; Mary McFadden,
March 15, 1818 ; Esther Amelia Caroline, October 25, 1821 ;
James McClure, November 13, 1824; Harvey Louis Marion,
August 3, 1826, died November 17, 1841, and Emily Ridley Jane,
January 29, 1831, died January 11, 1849.

John R. Buford, died in Fayette County, Tennessee, May 23,
1839. Esther E. Buford died in Chester County, South Carolina.

8. WILLIAM D., son of John R. and Esther E. Buford,
married his cousin, Letitia Buford (see Miles, below), and went
to Madison County, Missouri, in 1834, thence to Nacogdoches
County, Texas, in 1839. Children — E. Catherine, born November
13, 1831, and Thomas Ridley, September 21, 1833.

William D. Buford died September 30, 1839, and Letitia died
October 26, 1861.

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9. E. CATHERINE, daughter of William D. and Letitia B.
Buford, married George C. Bondies, July 11, 1848. Children —
George, William and Laura.

E. Catherine Bondies died May 7, 1860.

10. GEORGE, son of George C. and E. C. B. Bondies, mar¬
ried and had children — George, William and Henry.

George died, and his widow and children live in Galveston,
Texas.

10. WILLIAM, son of George C. and E. C. B. Bondies, mar¬
ried and lives in Forney, Kufman County, Texas.

10. LAURA, daughter of George C. and E. C. B. Bondies,
married W. A. George.

9. THOMAS RIDLEY, son of William D. and Letitia B.
Buford, married, first, Margaret McRea, October 2, 1859. Child
— Letitia, born February 28, 1863. Margaret McRea Buford died
September 20, 1864, and Thomas Ridley married, for his second
wife, Amanda Rebecca Kyle, June 11, 1867. Children — William
G., born June 22, 1868, died September 28, 1869 ; Thomas E., May
31, 1871 ; Frank Lee, February 16, 1873; Ida Kate, September 24,
1875; Ira May, June 3, 1878.

Thomas R. Buford died at Sabine Pass, Texas, in August,
1879.

10. LETITIA, daughter of Thomas R. and Margaret Mc¬
Rea Buford, married J. F. Lanier.

8. JEFFERSON, son of John Ragsdale and Esther Eaves
Buford, born in Union District, South Carolina, August 17, 1807,
married, May 30, 1839, Mary Ann Rebecca White, daughter of
John Hardy and Rebecca White, who was born at Whitesvilie,
North Carolina, June 24, 1823, and died at Eufaula, Alabama,
July 16, 1852. Children — John Ridley, born at Oak Forrest, Bar¬
bour County, Alabama, September 8, 1840, now living at Santa
Barbara, Brazil, South America; Jefferson LeRoy, September 20,
1842, died at Birmingham, Alabama, March 29, 1896; Mary, at
Oak Forrest, July 5, 1845; Annie Eliza Rebecca, at Eufaula, Ala-

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bama, April 7, 1847, died March 9, 1896; Emily, at Prairie Hill,
Macon County, Alabama, January 8, 1850, died at Eufaula, Ala¬
bama, December 21, 1850.

Jefferson Buford married, for second wife, Mrs. Lizzie Juett
McNeil, in November, 1858, and died at Clayton, Alabama,
August 28, 1862. His widow is living at Union Springs, and is
married the third time.

In the spring of 1856, when the question of the right to in¬
troduce slaves into the territories was being agitated, Jefferson
Buford, who was then conducting a newspaper in Eufaula, Ala¬
bama, issued a call for three hundred volunteers, ostensibly to set¬
tle in Kansas, but really to invade the territory, and by force
make it a slave state, promising them, by way of inducements,
transportation, support for one year and a homestead. He suc¬
ceeded in raising the company and fitted out the expedition,
largely at his own expense. To reimburse him for his outlay, it
was understood that each member of the company was to take
up a claim, one-half of which was to be turned over to him. The
greater part of these adventurers were reckless characters. It
must not be supposed, however, that all the company were vicious
men; some amiable, high-toned young men, poor but well con¬
nected, were among them. They were collected from Alabama,
the Carolinas, Mississippi and Georgia. The expedition was
armed and formed in companies, with Colonel Buford in com¬
mand, and proceeded up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. On
its arrival in Kansas City, Missouri, they were drawn up in mil¬
itary array, and amidst enthusiasm, the pro-slave party called
upon the members to give a pledge and take the oath that they
would not leave Kansas until it was made a free state. Buford
disclaimed having come to Kansas to destroy property. There
was some misunderstanding on the part of the young adventurers
as to the terms of their contract, but finally all signed and took
the oath. For some time they were quartered on the border be¬
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from home and from the neighboring counties in Missouri. Most
of the better class of young men deserted, and went home dis¬
gusted with their companions and the duties entailed on them by
the pro-slavery conquest.

Buford’s company with the Missouri contingent, in ah
about eight hundred men, in May moved into Kansas. Lawrence
was peacefully surrendered by the free-state men; they took pos¬
session of the town and sacked it. It is well to add that they were
acting under the guidance of the governor and state authorities.
After this guerilla warfare was kept up for some time, Buford’s
men entering into it actively. John Brown and his sons appeared
on the scene and whipped the pro-slavers at Palmyra; afterward
both parties concentrated their forces at Franklin. Buford was
with them, with a quantity of arms and stores, which were cap¬
tured and the pro-slavers driven off. After some desultory
fighting and maneuvering to avoid fighting, on the part of both
parties, with the United States troops as a third party, the pro¬
slavers confined themselves to the Indian Reservation along the
frontier, until their depredations became so annoying that the
Indians complained to the agent, who asked the United States
troops to interfere, which they did, and drove the pro-slavers into
Missouri. Buford felt very sore and complained to the governor
of the territory, who assured him “that he would have no diffi¬
culty in coming into the territory with bona fide settlers.’’ Dur¬
ing June the pro-slavers were kept in Missouri ; in July politicians
took a hand, and finally succeeded in getting the President to use
United States forces for the dispersal of the legislature. This
was done on the 4th of July, and the territory lay at the mercy
of the pro-slavery party. The venture did not succeed financially,
as few of the company became permanent residents of Kansas,
but there is no doubt that the appearance of Buford on the border
greatly encouraged the pro-slavery leaders, and they said, “The
noble Buford is endeared to our hearts; we love him; we will
fight for him, and will die for him and his companions.” The

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conception and execution of this reckless adventure by Buford
were only equaled by John Brown’s opposition to it, and the lat¬
ter’s crusade into Maryland was but another step towards the
Civil War.

9. MARY, daughter of Jefferson and Mary White Bu¬
ford, born July 5, 1845, married, December 19, 1867, Robert Long
Hobdy, born at Hobdy’s Bridge, Dike County, Alabama, October
22, 1840. Children — Robert Long, Jr., born at Prairie Hill, Macon
County, Alabama, January 3, 1870; Annie Lucile, June 24, 1872;
John Buford, January 16, 1875 ; Marie Elise, May 9, 1877 ; Jennie
McKay, October 27, 1879; Charles Frank Edward, March 25,
1882, died March 27, 1888. Robert and Mary Hobdy live at Union
Springs, Alabama.

8. DIDOMIA, daughter of John R. and Esther E. Buford,
married William Ferguson. Children — Esther, Narcissa and
William.

8. JEMIMA S. married Miles Buford (see below).

8. JOHN O. H., son of John Ragsdale and Esther Eaves
Buford, born February 7, 1828, married Caroline Augusta Black,
in Fayette County, Tennessee, November 5, 1846. Children —
Esther Adelia, born October 22, 1847; Leander Jefferson, Decem¬
ber 17, 1849, died May 19, 1874; Mary Ella, July 27, 1852, died
July 23, 1853; Ridley Eaves, July 22, 1854; James B., March 4,
1857, died March 27, 1880; William 0., January 2, 1859, and
Eliza, September 6, 1863, live in Somerville, Tennessee.

9. ESTHER ADELIA, daughter of John 0. H. and Caro¬
line B. Buford, married F. C. Manley and lives in Shelby County,
Tennessee.

9. RIDLEY EAVES, son of John 0. and Caroline B. Bu¬
ford, married, December 2, 1886, in Fayette County, Tennessee,
Julia Lucas. Children — Caremay and Norma.

8. PATIENCE EMELINE, daughter of John and Esther
E. Buford, married, in 1839, Sample Alexander. Children — Na¬
thaniel Ridley, born in 1842, killed in the battle of Pine Bluff,

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Arkansas, in 1862, in the Confederate States Army; Margaret
Holliday, 1843; Eliza McClure, 1845; Caroline Amelia, 1847;
Charles H. Norris Buford, 1851 ; James Sample, 1853, and Em-
eline Buford, 1855. Emeline died November 23, 1857, and Sam¬
ple married, second, Lucy H. Clawson. Children — William Claw¬
son and Lewis.

Sample Alexander died in 1878. He was a merchant in Ches¬
ter, South Carolina.

9. MARGARET HOLLIDAY, daughter of Sample and
Patience E. B. Alexander, married, in February, 1866, George D.
Milton, whcse first wife was Frances Poag, who died in 1862.
Children — Lucius Hopkins, born in 1870; Charles Nannetta, 1872,
and Georgia, 1875.

George D. Milton died July 18, 1876.

9. ELIZA McCLURE, daughter of Sample and Patience
E. B. Alexander, married, in 1868, Edward T. Atkinson. Chil¬
dren — Buford, born in 1870; Susan, 1872; Howard, 1880; Wal¬
ter, 1882.

9. CAROLINE AMELIA, daughter of Sample and Patience
E. B. Alexander, married, in 1867, Thomas N. Youngblood.
Children — Emma, born in 1870; Lucy, 1872; Charles, 1874;
Sarah, 1875; Caroline, 1876; Thomas, 1877, died in 1878; Eliza,
1878, died in 1880; Pelzer, 1880, and Mary, 1883.

Thomas Youngblood died in October, 1886.

10. EMMA, daughter of Thomas N. and Caroline Young¬
blood, married, in 1891, David Jones, Jr.

9. CHARLES H., son of Sample and Patience E. B. Alex¬
ander, married, in 1885, Eliza McClure. Child — Frances, born
in 1890.

9. NORRIS BUFORD, son of Sample and Patience E. B.
Alexander, married in 1872, Mary Buford Fayssoux, his second
cousin, granddaughter of Susan Buford McFadden. Children —
Rebecca Mills, born in 1874, died in 1878; Thomas Mills, 1878,
and one born in 1892.

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9. EMOLINE BUFORD, daughter of Sample and Patience
E. B. Alexander, married, in 1881, T. Butler Woods. Children —
Eveline, born in 1883 ; Auburn, 1885 ; Butler, 1889, and two
others.

8. MARY McFADDEN, daughter of John R. and Esther E.
Buford, married, October 22, 1844, Cyrus Davis Melton, who was
born in York County, South Carolina, in 1819, and was an emi¬
nent lawyer in Chesterville, South Carolina. Children — Esther
Virginia, born November 25, 1845 ; a son, July 17, 1848, died Feb¬
ruary 5, 1849; Ridley Eaves, July 27, 1850, died March 3, 1853;
Samuel Davis, April 10, 1854, died December 15, 1880; Preston
LaBorde, March 26, 1856.

Cyrus Davis Melton died at Columbia, South Carolina, De¬
cember 4, 1875. Mary B. Melton died at Columbia, South Caro¬
lina, November 26, 1888.

9. ESTHER VIRGINIA, daughter of Cyrus D. and Mary
B. Melton, married, December 26, 1866, Washington Augustus
Clark, of Chester, South Carolina. Children — A daughter, born
August 24, 1868, died ; Davis Melton, November 21, 1869, died
January 15, 1870; Ephriam Melton, December 17, 1870, died June
1, 1871; Edward Bailey, December 10, 1871; Melton, April 19,
1874; Mary Buford, May 10, 1876; Washington, February 6,
1878; James, August 20, 1880; Lillian Virginia, November 12,
1882; Ephriam Mikell, July 24, 1884, died October 24, 1887;
Susan, April 7, 1886.

Esther Virginia Clark died October 5, 1890, W. A. Clark,
- . Home, Columbia, South Carolina.

10. MELTON, son of Washington A. and Esther M. Clark,
married, July 30, 1896, Charlotte M. Woodroe, of Columbia,
South Carolina.

10. MARY BUFORD, daughter of Washington A. and
Esther M. Clark, married, in November, 1895, Fletcher S. Brock¬
man, of Atlanta, Georgia. Child — Allan Clark, born August,
1896.

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9. PRESTON LA BORDE, son of Cyrus D. and. Mary B.
Melton, married Emma Conner, of Lancaster, South Carolina.
Child — Emma Conner, born in 1887.

8. ESTHER AMELIA CAROLINE, daughter of John R.
and Esther E. Buford, married Dr. E. M. Heron. Children —
Derril E., Edward M., died, and Harriet.

Esther M. Heron died in 1860 and Dr. E. M. Heron lives in
Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama.

8. JAMES McCLURE, son of John R. and Esther E. Bu¬
ford, married at Eufaula, Alabama, June 14, 1859, Maldie Cowan.
Children — William Cowan, born July 8, 1861; Caroline Eloise,
January 12, 1862; Jefferson Pugh, December 23, 1863; Annie
Esther, October 23, 1865; Therese, November 23, 1868; Leroy
Eaves, May 11, 1870; Mary Melton, August 20, 1872, died Janu¬
ary, 1888, and Emily A., July 21, 1874. Residence, Kelso, Wash¬
ington.

9. CAROLINE ELOISE, daughter of James M. and Maldie
C. Buford, married A. L. Jessup, died January 22, 1892.

9. ANNIE ESTHER, daughter of James M. and Maldie C.
Buford, married W. W. Forbes.

7. ROBERT, son of LeRoy and Frances R. Buford, mar¬
ried, August 26, 1821, Lydia, daughter of William and Jane
Black, of York District, South Carolina, who was born July 12,
1802. Children — Susan A. McFadden, born June 11, 1822; Wil¬
liam Haslet, January 12, 1824, died June 11, 1834; Robert C.,
July 7, 1826; Jane Amelia, April 13, 1827 ; Lydia Louise, Septem¬
ber 20, 1829; Elizabeth, September 15, 1831; James Hamilton,
April 28, 1833; Theodore W., September 1, 1836; Frances Ann,
September 10, 1839; Harriet Esther, January 8, 1841; Leander
Leroy, February 22, 1846, died October 6, 1846.

Robert Buford was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia,
and went to Fayette County, Tennessee, in 1824; afterwards set¬
tled at Rienzi, Mississippi, where he died, August 20, 1869.
Lydia B. Buford died March 6, 1879.

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8. SUSAN A. McFADDEN, daughter of Robert and Lydia
B. Buford, married, first, in June, 1840; Jesse Brown, and, sec¬
ond, October 23, 1845, Johnson Buntin.

8. ROBERT C., son of Robert and Lydia B. Buford, mar¬
ried, November 28, 1848, Mattie Settle, and died October 14, 1854.

8. JANE AMELIA, daughter of Robert and Lydia B. Bu¬
ford, married, in October, 1854, James McAdory, and died Decem¬
ber 12, 1860.

8. LYDIA LOUISE, daughter of Robert and Lydia B. Bu¬
ford, married, December 24, 1850, Silas H., son of Robert and Re¬
becca Clark. Children — Robert Sledge, born July 25, 1852; Silas
Walter, August 8, 1855 ; Charles Buford, September 8, 1858 ;
Lelia Silas, February 19, 1861, married Brown.

Silas H. Clark died January 7, 1864. His family lives in
Kosciusko, Mississippi.

8. ELIZABETH, daughter of Robert and Lydia B. Buford,
married, September 16, 1852, H. L. Staford, of South Carolina,
and died April 12, 1875.

8. JAMES H., son of Robert, born September 12, 1867,
married Mary Wade. No children. James H. Buford died March
4, 1887.

8. THEODORE W., son of Robert and Lydia B. Buford,
married, February 16, 1865, Eva Dickins, and lives in Pickens,
Mississippi.

8. FRANCES ANN, daughter of Robert and Lydia B. Bu¬
ford, married, May 1, 1878, Robert Henderson, of Corinth, Miss¬
issippi, and died January 14, 1892.

8. HARRIET E., daughter of Robert and Lydia B. Buford,
married, October 7, 1868, James M. Lewis, of South Carolina,
and lives in Pickens, Mississippi.

7. MILES, son of Le Roy and Frances B. Buford, married,
first, January 15, 1807, Catherine Young of Union District,
South Carolina, and went to Fayette County, Tennessee, in 1824,
with his brother Robert. Children — Le Roy, born April 2, 1808 ;

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YOUNG

CHRISTOPHER

BUFORD

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421

Letitia, March 23, 1812; Thomas Young, August 5, 1814; Chris¬
topher Young, February 4, 1816; William Ragsdale, March 3,
1818; Mary Frances, April 15, 1820; Susan, December 29, 1822.

Catherine Y. Buford died October 25, 1826. Miles Buford
married, second, September 12, 1828, Jemima Buford. Children
— Esther C., born November 13, 1829; Patience Emeline, January
9, 1831 ; Jefferson R., June 18, 1832, died July 6, 1897 ; Almorinda
C., October 5, 1833; Miles Marion, February 6, 1835, died March
3, 1877 ; Cicely E., February 13, 1839 ; Emily T., December 9,
1841, died April 4, 1842; Susannah T., June 15, 1843; Frances E.,
September 24, 1845; James K. Polk, June 15, 1847 ; Richard Mad¬
ison, February 23, 1849; Decatur, Jackson and Henry Washing¬
ton, June 21, 1850; Grazilda, February 14, 1835.

Miles went from Fayette County, Tennessee, about 1830, to
Louisiana, and settled at Haynesville, where he died April 16,
1871. Jemima Buford died January 20, 1891.

8. LETITIA, daughter of Miles and Catherine Young Bu¬
ford, married her cousin, William D. Buford (see John R. Bu¬
ford, son of Le Roy) .

8. THOMAS YOUNG, son of Miles and Catherine Y. Bu¬
ford, married, December 23, 1836, Mary Sipson, and had two
children.

8. CHRISTOPHER YOUNG, son of Miles and Catherine
Y. Buford, married, October 29, 1839, Mary H. Nifong.

NIFONG

The Nifongs were a great and well respected people and old
settlers of Madison County, Missouri. Mary H. Nifong was a
daughter of George and Catherine Nifong. He died August 18,
1873, at ninety years of age; his wife died March 4, 1866, at
eighty-four years of age.

Children — Robert, born January 25, 1843; Susan Catherine,
November 2, 1844; William, February 1, 1848; George C., Oc¬
tober 20, 1849; Mary Sonora, February 1, 1852; Cora, August 26,

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1854, never married. Christopher Y. Buford, married, second,
June 9, 1859, Jane Anthony. Children — Nellie, born April 1,
1860; Thomas Price, June 6, 1862; Samuel, February 25, 1864.

Christopher Y. Buford was a man with a big heart, and it is
a question if a better man ever lived in Madison County than he.
When the United States was in war with Mexico, 1845, he vol¬
unteered his services to help his country. In 1849 he went for the
gold fields of California and incurred the hardships of that
perilous journey. His company came back by sea and was ship¬
wrecked and barely escaped. When they were within about one
mile of home, one of the men fell off his horse in the snow (they
all had the cholera and were worn out and fatigued). Mr. Bu¬
ford stopped and rendered assistance, when he was forsaken by
all the rest. In the Great Rebellion he volunteered his sei vices
and went with the South.

He left home when a mere boy and was thrown on his own
lesources, and yet he made the best of life. He sold his farm east
of Fredericktown, Missouri, for sixty-five thousand dollars and
moved into town and there lived the remainder of his days. He
died December 31, 1876. His last wife, Jane Anthony Buford,
died October 27, 1922. Mr. Buford was a Democrat and a mem¬
ber of the Masonic fraternity.

9. SUSAN C., daughter of Christopher Y. and Mary H.
Nifong Buford, married Willis Blanks.

9. WILLIAM, son of Christopher Y. and Mary H. Nifong
Buford, married Nancy Emma Anthony. Children — Bessie,
never married ; May, married Mr. Thompson, of Newport, Ar¬
kansas; Maude B., married Sylvester C. Nifong; Homer, married

- and they had two children — Jack, who is about ten

years old, and Curtis, who is two years old. Homer Buford was
superintendent of a great railroad in Iowa. He is located at 1405
South Eighth Street, Terre Haute, Indiana.

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9. GEORGE C., son of Christopher Y. and Mary H. Nifong
Buford, married and has a daughter, Lillie, and lives at Mon¬
mouth Springs, Arkansas.

9. MARY SONORA, daughter of C. Y. and M. H. Nifong
Buford, married M. C. O’Connell, who was an engineer for the
Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad. Children — Buford, Susan
and Henry.

9. NELLIE, daughter of C. Y. and Jane Anthony Buford,
married Robert P. Crow. Children — Clarence and Arbie.

R. P. Crow died but his wife, Nellie, is living at Ironton,
Missouri.

9. SAMUEL, son of C. Y. and Jane Anthony Buford, mar¬
ried, January 10, 1886, Lillie Lampher, a native of Missouri, born
in 1866, and the daughter of George W. Lampher. Children —
Frank, Charles L., George W. and Nellie. Frank and Charles
are good mercantile business men ; George W. is located in Cali¬
fornia, while Nellie is a trained nurse in St. Luke’s Hospital,
St. Louis.

Samuel Buford married, second (his first wife having
died), in 1916 or 1917, Florence May. Mr. Buford operates three
stores in Fredericktown, Missouri, a grocery store, a meat market
and a shoe store.

10. FRANK, son of Samuel and Lillie Lampher Buford,
married Alice Cassey. Two children — Virginia and Alice.

10. CHARLES L., son of Samuel and Lillie Lampher Bu¬
ford, married Marie Millerman.

8. WILLIAM RAGSDALE, son of Miles and Catherine Y.
Buford, married, June 17, 1841, Mary Buford, widow of his
brother, Thomas Young Buford. Children — John R. and Eliza¬
beth Catherine, and lives at Sulphur Springs, Texas.

9. ELIZABETH CATHERINE, daughter of William R.
and Mary Buford, married J. H. Harrison.

8. SUSAN, daughter of Miles and Catherine Y. Buford,
married Mr. Patrick and lives in Haynesville, Louisiana.

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7. POLLY, daughter of Le Roy and Frances R. Buford,
married Rev. J. B. Davis. Children — William Le Roy, Amelia
and Louise.

8. LE ROY, son of J. B. and Polly B. Davis, married Isa¬
bella Hemphill, sister of James Hemphill, who died young. Le
Roy married, second, Miss Wilson, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
They, with one son and their daughters, went West.

8. AMELIA, daughter of J. B. and Polly B. Davis, married
William McFadden. They, with several of their children, went
to Brazil, South America.

8. LOUISE, daughter of J. B. and Polly B. Davis, married
Mr. Wilson, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

7. PATIENCE, daughter of Le Roy and Frances B. Buford,
married Captain William Stringfellow, of Culpeper County,
Virginia. Children — Amelia, married William McClure; Cath¬
erine, married Major Henry; Harriet, married Rev. D. McNeill
Turner; Margaret, married Rev. A. W. Miller; Frances, died
young; James Madison; Robert, born in 1813, and William Hull.

8. ROBERT, son of Captain William and Patience B.
Stringfellow, married Mariah Gray. Children — Edwin Hull,
Patience, William, Lucius, Robert, Jr., Thornton, Kittie, died
young, Janie and another daughter.

9. EDWIN HULL, son of Robert and Mariah G. String¬
fellow, married and had children — a son and daughter died in
Florida, and James, born in 1839, married Isabella, daughter of
James Hemphill, and has a son, James Hemphill, and lives in
Chester, South Carolina.

9. PATIENCE, daughter of Robert and Mariah G. String¬
fellow, married Major Julius Mills, who died, leaving one son
and four daughters, Chester, South Carolina.

9. WILLIAM, son of Robert and Mariah G. Stringfellow,
married Annie Brawley, has five children, and lives at Chester,
South Carolina.

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9. LUCIUS, son of Robert and Mariah G. Stringfellow,
married and has four children.

9. ROBERT, JR., son of Robert and Mariah G. Stringfel¬
low, married Miss Hawthorne, Hawthorne, Florida.

9. THORNTON, son of Robert and Mariah G. Stringfel¬
low, married and died in 1894, leaving wife and one son.

8. WILLIAM HULL, son of Captain William and Patience
B. Stringfellow, married, first, Julia Raney. Children — William,
died; Eliza, married George K. Broome, Gainesville, Florida.
Julia R. died and William H. married a second time and had four
sons and one daughter. Sarah married Lieutenant Walker,
United States Army. They live at Gainesville, Florida.

7. SUSAN, daughter of Le Roy and Frances Ragsdale Bu¬
ford, married James McFadden. Children — Polly and Isaac.

8. POLLY, daughter of James and Susan McFadden, mar¬
ried Dr. J. B. Gaston. Children — James McFadden, Margaret,
J. Lucius, Susan, John Brown, Isaac Newton, killed in battle, Wil¬
liam, Thomas Chalmers, Mary, unmarried, Eliza and a daughter,
a missionary in Japan.

9. JAMES McFADDEN, son of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gas¬
ton, married Miss Brumby. He was a surgeon in the Confederate
States Army during the Civil War. Not being satisfied with the
results of the war, he formed a colony and went to Brazil, South
America. He remained there four or five years, returned to the
United States and settled in Atlanta, Georgia.

9. MARGARET, daughter of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gaston,
married Thomas C. Houze. She is dead. Mr. Houze and family
live in Chester, South Carolina.

9. J. LUCIUS, son of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gaston, born in
1830, married, in 1856, Margaret Hemphill. Children — Dr.
Lucius, born in 1858, Montgomery, Alabama, and Jane, who mar¬
ried George W. Gage, of Chester, South Carolina, in 1862. J.
Lucius was a captain of the Sixth South Carolina Regiment, Con-

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federate States Aimy, and was killed, beside his brother, Isaac
Newton, at the battle of Fair Oaks.

9. SUSAN, daughter of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gaston, born
in 1832, married Charles S. Brice. Both are dead. No children.

9. JOHN BROWN, son of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gaston,
married Delia Torrence. He is a doctor of Montgomery, Ala¬
bama, retired from practice. He was mayor of the city and pro¬
bate judge.

9. THOMAS CHALMERS, lawyer, son of Dr. J. B. and
Polly M. Gaston, married Sarah Lee, of Sumter, South Carolina.
Children — Arthur, Kate and Chalmers.

Thomas C. died in 1885, and Sarah L. died in 1896.

9. ELIZA, daughter of Dr. J. B. and Polly M. Gaston, mar¬
ried Captain Torrence, of Charlotte, North Carolina.

CHAPTER XVII.

6. JOSIAH AND ANN RAGSDALE BUFORD.

6. LETITIA BUFORD AND JOSHUA RAGSDALE.

6. JOSIAH, son of Henry and Frances Beauford, of Bruns¬
wick Parish, Amelia County, Virginia, married Ann, daughter of
John Ragsdale. (In his will, 1789, he gives her three negroes, and
provides for her living in the shed-room of his house during her
widowhood.) Child — Gabriel, born November 8, 1784.

Josiah Buford died about 1789, and his widow, Ann R., mar¬
ried, second, Mr. Estes, and went to Kentucky.

7. GABRIEL, son of Josiah and Ann R. Buford, married,
first, July 16, 1807, Susan Jackson, born February 29, 1788.
They went to Tennessee, in 1809, and settled in Williamson Coun¬
ty. Children— Robeit Jackson, born September 27, 1809, and
Susan Jackson, November 12, 1811. Susan Jackson Buford, Sr.,
died November 18, 1811. Gabriel married, second, October 25,
1814, Mary Wall, of North Carolina. Children — Joseph William,
born July 14, 1816, died October 4, 1841; Henrietta Ann, Feb¬
ruary 28, 1818; Edward W., April 12, 1820. Mary Wall Buford
died April 7, 1822. Gabriel married, third, December 19, 1822,
Elizabeth Thompson, born December 9, 1798, a daughter of John
and a sister of Dr. Elijah, who married Amelia, daughter of
Spencer, son of James and Mary R. Buford (see above). Chil¬
dren — John Thompson and Lemuel. Elizabeth T. Buford died
February 7, 1826, and Gabriel Buford married, fourth, August 11,
1829, Amanda P. Buford, widow of Edward, son of James and
Mary R. Buford (see above). Children — Marceus A., born July
24, 1830; Archimedes, July 12, 1833, died February 25, 1835.

Amanda P. Buford died October 25, 1834. Gabriel Buford
died September 5, 1863.

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8. ROBERT JACKSON, son of Gabriel and Susan Jackson
Buford, married Mary, daughter of Spencer and Elizabeth G.
Buford (see above). Daughter — Henrietta.

9. HENRIETTA, daughter of Robert J. and Mary Buford,
married James C. Morton, Williamson County, Tennessee.

8. SUSAN JACKSON, daughter of Gabriel and Susan J.
Buford, married Charles Lemmons.

8. JOSEPH WILLIAM, son of Gabriel and Mary Wall Bu¬
ford, married Miss Colvin, of North Carolina. No children.

8. HARRIET ANN, daughter of Gabriel and Mary Wall
Buford, married William C. Buford, son of Spencer and Elizabeth
Giddens Buford (see Spencer, son James).

8. EDWARD W., son of Gabriel and Mary Wall Buford,
married, May 7, 1844, Augusta Dirson. Children — Sarah, Hen-
riet, Emma, Calvin Tate and Lucy May. Augusta D. Buford died
in 1864, and Edward W. married, second, Miss Cowcest. Chil¬
dren — R. S. Buford, born in 1868; Myrtis Lillian, 1872; James
Rebecca, 1874; Janie, 1876; Katherine Currier, 1880; Thomas
Bright, 1883. Edward W. Buford owned a large platation.

9. SARAH, daughter of Edward W. and Augusta D. Bu¬
ford, married W. W. McConnico. Children — Joseph, born in
1868; Willie May, and Elizabeth.

10. WILLIE MAY, daughter of W. W. and Sarah B. Mc¬
Connico, married H. J. Loser. Children — Henry, born in 1889;
Carlton, 1891, and Lucille, 1895.

10. ELIZABETH, daughter of W. W. and Sarah B. Mc¬
Connico, married Horace Graves. Child — Edith, born in 1895.

9. HARRIET, daughter of Edward W. and Augusta D.
Buford, married James Burch. Son — Macy, born in 1868.

9. CALVIN TATE, son of Edward W. and Augusta D.
Buford, born November 22, 1845, married Ada Stephenson, De¬
cember 23, 1869, died January 12, 1923. Children — Ada Stephen¬
son, born September 23, 1870; James E., March 25, 1873; Calvin
Tate, Jr., February 26, 1875; Elizabeth Augusta, June 22, 1877;

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429

Edith Pearl, June 18, 1880, died August, 1904; Martha Malinda,
December 6, 1883 ; Harriet Viola, April 18, 1888 ; Stella May,
May 10, 1890; Grace Frierson, September 1, 1892.

10, ADA STEPHENSON, daughter of Calvin Tate and
Ada S. Buford, married J. L. Dudley, July 23, 1904. They live in
Memphis, Tennessee, and have a grocery store. Children — Loneta,
born December 16, 1905 ; Ada Hardin, December 16, 1906, and J.
L. Dudley, Jr., December 23, 1907, died January 25, 1908.

10. JAMES E., son of Calvin Tate and Ada S. Buford, mar¬
ried Dovie Whelchel, December 2, 1903, who is a druggist in Mem¬
phis, Tennessee. Child — James E. Buford, Jr., born December
24, 1905, in business with his father.

10. CALVIN TATE, Jr., son of Calvin Tate, Sr., and Ada
S. Buford, married Ida Turner, in 1895. Children — William
Joseph, born August 24, 1897 ; Florence Ada, March 31, 1899;
Marietta Margaret, February 9, 1904 ; Oscar Edwin, December 3,
1905 ; Calvin Tate 3d, February 27, 1908 ; Lucile Turner, July 21,
1910; Wane Graham, December 3, 1912; Leslie Woodroe, October
18, 1915; Elizabeth Pearl, May 7, 1918.

11. WILLIAM JOSEPH, son of Calvin Tate, Jr., and Ida T.
Buford, married Vera Crofton, December 25, 1919. Children —
William Joseph, Jr., born August 19, 1921, and Alvin Lee, April
24, 1923.

11. FLORENCE ADA, daughter of Calvin Tate, Jr,, and
Ida T. Buford, married Van Parigen, a farmer, near Memphis,
Tennessee. Child — Warren Harding, born June 17, 1921.

11. MARIETTA MARGARET, daughter of Calvin Tate,
Jr., and Ida T. Buford, married W. S. Freeman, April 17, 1920, a
farmer, near Memphis, Tennessee. Child — Alice Elizabeth, born
September 30, 1921, died June 21, 1923.

10. MARTHA MATILDA, daughter of Calvin Tate, Sr.,
and Ada S. Buford, married James Langly, a farmer, May 13,
1906. Child — Mattie Willie, born June 19, 1910, and Georgia,
December 23, 1912.

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10. HARRIET VIOLA, daughter of Calvin Tate, Sr., and
Ada S. Buford, married Edward R. Lovett, a farmer, June 3,
1906. Children — Buford Franklin, born May 11, 1907; William
Edward, September 29, 1912, and L. C. Lovett, June 14, 1915.

10. STELLA MAY, daughter of Calvin Tate, Sr., and Ada
S. Buford, married Glenn Holland, a farmer, December 10, 1916.
Children — Edith May, born October 23, 1917; Annie Grace, Sep¬
tember 9, 1919 ; Lillian Clair, October 23, 1921, and Viola Buford,
May 12, 1923.

10. GRACE FRIERSON, daughter of Calvin Tate, Sr.,
and Ada S. Buford, married Tyre Holland, December 21, 1910, a
mechanic, Memphis, Tennessee. Children — Dovie Marie, born
June 2, 1912; Ruby Grace, February 21, 1914; Annie Lou, Decem¬
ber 21, 1915, and Ada Loraine, August 2, 1920.

9. LUCY MAY, daughter of Edwin Wall and Augusta D.
Buford, married R. P. Gettys, Knoxville, Tennessee.

9. LILLIAN, daughter of Edwin Wall and C. Buford, mar¬
ried L. L. Gwinner.

9. JAMES REBECCA, daughter of Edwin Wall and C.
Buford, married J. L. Womack.

8. MARCELLUS A., son of Gabriel and Amanda P. Bu¬
ford, married, March 30, 1854, Emily J. Crutcher, born in Octo¬
ber, 1834. Children — Ella W., born May 22, 1855; David E.,
December, 1857; John B., 1859, died; Ruth, 1861; Charles A.,
died in 1863; Wilburn E., 1865, died; Joseph G., March 6, 1866;
Eunice, Margaret and Francis.

9. RUTH, daughter of Marcellus A. and Emily C. Buford,
married S. G. Gray. Five children — sons.

9. EUNICE, daughter of Marcellus A. and Emily C. Bu¬
ford, married Henry Collier. One daughter — Fred.

6. LETITIA, daughter of Henry and Frances Beauford,
married Joshua Ragsdale. Childien — Peter, Priscilla, Catherine,
Henry, Edward and James.

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431

7. HENRY, son of Joshua and Letitia Buford Ragsdale,
married Milly Applewhite. Son — Buford, married Miss Mason, a
niece of General Scott.

7. EDWARD, son of Joshua and Letitia Buford Ragsdale,
married and had, among other children — Robert and Edward.
Joshua Ragsdale died and Letitia married John Haley. Son —
Weeks, married Miss Lavender. One son — Newton, and two
daughters, who married Samuel and John Caperton.

BUFORD

CHAPTER XVIII.

5. JAMES, SR., AND MARY BEAUFORD
5. THOMAS BEAUFORD.

5. JAMES, SR., son of Henry and Mary Osborne Buford,
born in Christchurch Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia, in 1712,

married Mary - . Children — James, Jr., Henry, Peter,

who died June 13, 1778; Warren, Catherine, Elizabeth, Ambrose,
Mildred and Daniel.

James Beauford, Sr. (so signed), lived near Bears Element
Creek, Amelia County, Virginia, and was appointed surveyor,
December 10, 1772.

6. JAMES, JR., son of James, Sr., and Mary Beauford,
moved to South Carolina and married and had children. His
son John lived and died in Union County, South Carolina.

7. JOHN, son of James, Jr., born in 1788, died in 1845-50,
married, December 28, 1808, Ann Rogers, who was born Novem¬
ber 11, 1790, and died in 1856. Children — James C., born April
28, 1816. William, 1820, died in September, 1882; Elizabeth and
Lucy, both dead.

8. JAMES C., son of John and Ann Rogers Buford, mar¬
ried, in 1845, Caroline Hudspeth, who was born June 20, 1820.
Children — Munson M., born February 13, 1846; Carvossa W.,
August 19, 1849; Elizabeth E., October 4, 1851.

James C. Buford died in Newberry County, South Carolina,
June 2, 1874.

9. MUNSON, M., son of James C. and Caroline H. Buford,
married, March 15, 1870, Sallie A. Bell, who was born September
30, 1850. Children — James R., born August 2, 1872, died Janu¬
ary 11, 1876; Willie T., October 4, 1874; John B., April 4, 1877,
died September 19, 1878; George Fair, July 24, 1879; Mary Eliz¬
abeth, January 25, 1882; Robert Hayne, July 24, 1884; Pope

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Lee, June 28, 1886; Munson L., September 30, 1888; Sallie Bell,
September 23, 1890. Home, Newberry, South Carolina.

9. ELIZABETH E., daughter of James C. and Caroline H.
Buford, married T. W. Davis. Children — James, Eva, John,
Munson, Farman and Elizabeth. Home, Newberry South Caro¬
lina.

6. HENRY, son of James, Sr., and Mary Osborne Beau-
ford, went to Burk County, Georgia, and settled on the Savannah
River. His first wife was a Miss Gillner. He married a second
time and had a large family of children, among them John and
Elizabeth.

7. JOHN, son of Henry and - Gillner Buford, settled

in Scriven County, Georgia, married Mary Green. Children —
William Green, Elizabeth, who married Dr. Vaser; Henry, who
married Mary Williams, of Old Beaufort District, New Hamp¬
ton County; John, who married Miss Mills; Annin, who married
Henry Overstreet ; Maria and Mary, who both married Mills ;
Jameson Vaudavastine, who married Elizabeth Coleman. Mary
Green Buford died, and John married Miss Blackshear. They
had one son, Abraham, who never married but died in youth.
The second wife dying, John married Miss Crosby, whose children
were — Greenbury, Adela, Simeon and Lucy. John married a
widow for his fourth wife, and outlived them all.

8. WILLIAM GREEN, son of John and Mary Green Bu¬
ford, moved to Florida, and married there and had children —
Elizabeth, who married John Wettles and had a family; Mary
Ann, born in 1814, married a German-American named Geiger,
was his second wife, and had a large family; Kezia, born in Nas¬
sau County, Florida, November 25, 1825; David H., who was
killed in a cyclone when fourteen years of age; a son, who was
killed in the battle of Gettysburg; John David, born in 1834, and
Joseph C., born in 1837.

William Green Buford died in 1854.

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

9. KEZIA, (laughter of William Green Buford, had child-
ien — Joseph H., born March 29, 1854; Penelope J., September 4,
1858; Amos, October 20, 1862.

10. JOSEPH H., son of Kezia Buford, married Georgia
Cowart, December 30, 1875. Children — John F., born November
19, 1876, died November 15, 1893; Penelope J., November 14,
1878; Joseph C., May 16, 1881; Mary J., May 4, 1883; Claudius

C., March 28, 1886, Nassau County, Florida.

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10. Penelope J., daughter of Kezia Buford, married Charles
L. Miller. Five children. Home, Cheetham, Texas.

10. AMOS, son of Kezia Buford, married Viola L. Pendar-
ris, November 23, 1887. Children — Fred P., born September 19,
1888, died July 29, 1898; Otto Ernest, February 12, 1891; Con¬
way M., August 11, 1899; Dorthy M., August 12, 1901, residence,
Mayport, Florida.

11. OTTO ERNEST, son of Amos and Viola L. P. Buford,
married Ida M. Kellogg, October 29, 1919.

11. DORTHY M., daughter of Amos and Viola L. P. Bu¬
ford, married Joseph N. Roberts, November 25, 1922.

9. JOHN DAVID, son of William Green Buford, born in
1834, married Kate Sikes in 1860. They had seven children,
four of whom are living.

Kate Sikes Buford died October 3, 1896.

John David Buford served in the Seminole War, 1857-1858,
also for three years in the Confederate States Army. Home, Cal¬
lahan, Florida.

8. HENRY, son of John and Mary Green Buford, married
Mary Williams, December 30, 1817. Children — Robert Burton,
died October 7, 1860. Allen Roberts, died June 28, 1822; Eliza¬
beth Mary, died June 17, 1851; John Timoleon, died April 15,
1854; Catherine Williams, Homer Milton, Richard Williams and
Henrietta Clayton.

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435

9. HOMER MILTON, son of Henry and Mary Williams
Buford, married Savannah Lewis, of Alabama. They have three
sons and two daughters. Most of them are married.

Savannah Lewis Buford died December 24, 1900.

9. RICHARD WILLIAMS, son of Henry and Mary Wil¬
liams Buford, married Lottie Forrester. Children — Henry,
Mary and Milton.

Richard Williams Buford died August 10,1901.

9. CATHERINE WILLIAMS and HENRIETTA CLAY¬
TON, daughters of Heniy and Mary Williams Buford, have never
married. They are living at Suebella, South Carolina.

8. JAMESON VANDAVASTINE, son of John and Mary
Green Buford, married Elizabeth Coleman. They had three sons
and four daughters, Benjamin C., William and John G., of Mob¬
ley, Georgia.

7. ELIZABETH, daughter of Henry and Gillner Beau-
ford, of Georgia, never married, lived to an advanced age,
and always refused to change the spelling of her name from
Beauford, which had been the form in her childhood, to Buford,
which had gradually become accepted.

6. WARREN, son of James, Sr., and Mary. Beauford, of
Cumberland Parish, married Mary Beauford, his cousin, daughter
of Henry and Frances Beauford, of Nottaway Parish, Amelia
County, Virginia. Mary was born in 1735. Children — Philemon
born October, 1765, Lunsford, Byrd, Warren, Jr., and James.

7. PHILEMON, son of Warren and Mary Beauford, mar¬
ried, in 1793, Eunice Warren, daughter of Goodloe Warren, of
Pearson County, North Carolina. Children — Goodloe Warren,
born September 16, 1794; Robert Harper, 1802. Eunice W.
Beauford died, and Philemon married, for his second wife, Sarah
Smythe, born in 1780. Their children were — Abram, born in
1806; Thomas Newton, 1808; Albert Gallatin, 1810; Andrew
Jackson, 1815; James Sidney Smythe, 1818, and Eunice.

4 36 HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

Philemon Buford went from Lunenburg County, Virginia,
to Abbeyville, South Carolina, thence to Green County, Alabama,
where some of his younger children were born. He owned the
land on which Eutaw was built; moved thence to Maury County,
Tennessee, six miles west of Columbia, and forty miles from
Nashville, where he died in 1847. Sarah Smythe Buford died
in 1856.

8. GOODLOE WARREN, son of Philemon and Eunice
Warren Buford, married, January 2, 1823, Selina Grace Stephen¬
son, born August 26, 1803, the daughter of Rev. Thomas Stephen¬
son, rector of the Mount Veinon Presbyterian Church at Frierson
settlement near Columbia, Tennessee. She was a sister of Sarah,
who married Edward Livingston Frierson, brother of Charles,
who was the ancestor of the Lafayette County Friersons. Chil¬
dren — Livinia Olivia, born August 1, 1824; Jeanette Wilson,
April 18, 1826; Hampton Aubrey, June 17, 1828; Sarah Eunice,
July 4, 1830; Thomas Philemon, January 4, 1833; John Elihu
Harper, June 9, 1835, died on the battlefield of Murfreesboro,
December 31, 1862, of the Thirtieth Mississippi Regiment; Good-
loe Warren, Jr., October 30, 1837 ; Mary Charlotte Stephenson,
December 17, 1840, died March 4, 1841, and Julia Grace, Novem¬
ber 11, 1845. ‘

After living a few years in Murray County, Goodloe Warren
Buford removed to Yalobusha County, Mississippi, in 1834, and
located near where Oakland now stands, and remained there one
year, sold out and went to College Hill, having purchased four
sections of land, 1, 2, 3, and 11. He was the first of the family to
go to Murray County. At that time the land was covered with
a somewhat scattering growth of large timber, with grass every¬
where as high as a man’s head. The Indians were settled in
groups, in tents, mud huts, and log cabins. Game of all kinds was
abundant, deer roving about in droves of sixty to one hundred,

or more.

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437

Goodloe Warren Buford devoted his attention to his farm,
except that he stumped the County for Henry Clay, in 1844. He
raised about one hundred bales of cotton a year, hauling the
early bales to Memphis on wagons, and shipping the later ones
down the Tallahatchie on steamboats, which then ran in winter as
far up as Rocky Ford. They were devout Presbyterians, and Mr.
Buford took a lively interest in church and educational matters.
He gave a quarter section of land to found a college, the outgrowth
of which gift was North Mississippi College, as well as the village
of College Hill.

Goodloe Warren Buford died July 6, 1887. Selina Stephen¬
son Buford died February 28, 1877.

9. LIVINIA OLIVIA, daughter of Goodloe Warren and
Selina S. Buford, married, May 20, 1844, James E. Hurt. Chil¬
dren — Ella, who married a Hurt; Mary Scott, who married P.
Fernandez; Etheldred, Donna and Martha Pope.

Livinia Olivia Hurt died in May, 1863. James E. Hurt died
in 1865.

9. JEANETTE WILSON, daughter of Goodloe W. and
Selina S. Buford, married, March 4, 1845, James M. Tankersley,
of College Hill, Mississippi. Children — Goodloe Harper, James
Aubry, Selina Scott, married Samuel Mathis, of College Hill,
Mississippi ; Eugene, Mary Florence, married Thomas Carnatha,
of College Hill, Mississippi, and Olivia Grace, of Oxford, Miss¬
issippi.

9. HAMPTON AUBREY, son of Goodloe W. and Selina S.
Buford, married Sarah, daughter of Louis Gill and grand¬
daughter of Colonel George Gill, of the Revolution. Children —
Mary Grace, born in 1853, died in 1857 ; Nannie Olivia, 1856, died
in 1857; Warren Baretlett, 1858, married Ella Smith; Robert
Lewis, Thomas Carnes, Donna Rebecca and John Wilmot, who
died young.

Hampton Aubrey Buford served in the Confederate Aimy, was
captured, and for some months confined at Rock Island, Illinois.
Residence, College Hill, Mississippi. Now dead.

10. THOMAS CARNES, son of Hampton Aubrey and
Sarah I. Gill Buford, merchant at Malden, Missouri, in 1895, was
born in Oxford, Mississippi. His father was a native of Murray,
Tennessee, and his mother, of Rock Hill, South (5arolina. Thev
emigrated to Mississippi, and here their third son, Thomas
Carnes, was reared and educated. He is well educated and fol¬
lows the profession of bookkeeper. He came to Dunklin County
in May, 1895, and is now proprietor of the Buford establishment,
in Malden, on the corner of Main and Madison Stieets. He has a
new and well-selected line of general merchandise and is doing a
thriving business. He is a young man of more than ordinary in¬
telligence, noted for his liberality, and is always ready to help
along any enterprise to forward the progress of his adopted
county. Dunklin County will always be glad to welcome more
such citizens. He is a Democrat in politics.

9. SARAH EUNICE, daughter of Goodloe Warren and
Selina S. Buford, married, December 23, 1851, John Jones
Quarles. Children — Robert Warren, who is a physician ; Francis,
died in 1885; Lily, married Mr. Hurt, of Memphis, Tennessee, and
John Jones, Jr. Sarah Eunice now dead.

John J. Quarles died, in 1862, in the Confederate States
Army. Residence, Van Buren, Arkansas.

9. THOMAS PHILEMON, son of Goodloe Warren and
Selina S. Buford, married Martha Jane Moorman, June 12, 1875.
Children — Annie Grece, born November 10, 1876; Loulie May,
May 7, 1878; Warren Bruce, August 10, 1880; Ernestine Eunice,
March 6, 1883, and John Moorman, June 21, 1888. Their home
has been in Roanoke City, Virginia, ever since their marriage.

Thomas P. Buford died a few years ago, 1924, and his widow
lives with her children.

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Warren Bruce Buford is a brilliant young attorney, office,
507 First National Bank Building, Roanoke, Virginia. Grace
takes special pride in her class of music pupils. Loulie May mar¬
ried Mr. Huet, and they have one child, Martha Louise Huet.

Thomas Philemon Buford, with his brother, Goodloe Warren,
Jr., and his cousins, Joseph P. C. Buford, Walter Scott Buford
and Morgan Parham Buford, enlisted, in April, 1861, as privates,
at Oxford, Mississippi, in the Lamar Rifles, incorporated as Com¬
pany G, Eleventh Mississippi, and mustered into the Confederate
States Army at Lynchburg, Virginia, in May, 1861. He was at
Harper’s Ferry, Winchester and First Manassas, under Generals
Joseph E. Johnson and Robert E. Lee. Morgan Parham Buford
was killed at Gettysburg, standing beside Thomas P. and Goodloe
Warren, Jr., in General A. P. Hill’s opening attack on General
John Buford. Walter Scott Buford was killed at the second battle
of Manassas. Thomas P. and Goodloe Warren, Jr., were both
twice wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and at Petersburg;
both were in the hospital at Richmond when the Federal Army en~
tered, and were mustered out of the service on crutches. .

9. JULIA GRACE, daughter of Goodloe Warren and Selina
S. Buford, married James Edward Hope, of College Hill, Mississ¬
ippi. Children — Jennie Grace, married B. M. Pettis; Leighton,
Lizzie and Wilson.

8. ROBERT HARPER, son of Philemon and Eunice War¬
ren Buford, married Cynthia Shaw and settled west of College
Hill, Mississippi. Children — Joseph P. C., born in 1836, married
and lived near Horn Lake, Mississippi ; Mary Susan married John
Toney, of San Jose, California, and died in 1882 ; Edward Livings¬
ton, 1840, married and died in Missouri ; Philemon, 1844, married,
and died in 1895, in Memphis, Tenn. ; Sallie and Elvira (twins),
1848; Sallie, married Eugene Anderson, was his second wife;
Elvira (“Dunk”), married Robert Anderson, of California.

Robert Harper Buford died in 1854.

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8. ABRAM CALVIN, son of Philemon and his second wife,
Sarah Smvthe Buford, married Mary Ann Harden Smith, born
in 1819. Child — Smith, born in 1839.

Abram Calvin Buford was a commission merchant in New
Orleans, Louisiana, and died in 1842. His wife died in 1851.

9. SMITH, son of Abram Calvin and Mary Smith Buford,
married, first, Martha A. Hull. Children — Mary Lillian, born in
1867; Walter Sidney, 1869; Julius Leroy, 1871, died in 1873;
Eunice Maud, 1874; Robert Alanson, 1875, died in 1883. Mar¬
tha Hull Buford died in 1881. Smith Buford married Susan L.
Morehead. No children. A physician, Raleigh, Shelby County,
Tennessee.

8. THOMAS NEWTON, son of Philemon and his second
wife, Sarah Smythe Buford, married his first wife, who died
childless; married second, Caroline Tankersley, of College Hill,
Mississippi. Children — Eveline Sigourney, born in 1840; Walter
Scott, 1842, killed in second battle of Manassas, in 1862; Augusta,

1845, married Judge Webb, of Sumter, Mississippi, died in 1894;
Paul C., 1846, married Louise Barry; Linius, 1849, died in 1866;
Israel Pickens, 1851 ; Ralph, 1853, married, first, Miss Hodges,
who died, and he married, second, Miss Price; Lawrence Newton,
1855, married Maud Doyle, live in Roanoke, Virginia; Caroline,
1859, married Charles B. Price, of Roanoke, Virginia; Dixie,
1864, married Mr. Jennings, of Watter Valley, Mississippi.

Thomas Newton Buford, died in 1875.

8. ALBERT GALLATIN, son of Philemon and his second
wife, Sarah Smythe Buford, married, first, Margaret Strickland.
Children — Margaret Elizabeth, born in 1840, married Mr. Har¬
vey, of Water Valley, Mississippi; Mary Eunice, 1842, married
Mr. Wagner, of Water Valley, Mississippi ; Emma Gallatin, 1844,
married Mr. Ransom, of Jackson, Tennessee; William Leonidas,

1846, killed at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1863; Sydney Taylor, 1848,
died in 1866.

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Albert Gallatin Buford, married second, third, and fourth
wives, who had no children. He died in 1894.

8. ANDREW JACKSON, son of Philemon and Sarah
Smythe Buford, married, in 1838, Susan Buford, daughter of
Spencer Buford of Giles County, Tennessee (see above). Chil¬
dren — William Lee, born June 21, 1840; Henry Clay, July 4,
1842; Mary Amelia, March 8, 1846; Abraham Spencer, February
17, 1850. Sarah Buford died and Andrew Jackson married, for
his second wife, Eliza Morehead. Children — Turner Moorhead,
born in 1852; Philemon Harper, 1854; Jackson, 1856, died in
1876; Donaldson, 1858, died in 1896; Charles, 1860; May, 1862,
died in 1866.

Andrew Jackson Buford was a farmer in Shelby County,
Tennessee. He died in 1878.

9. WILLIAM LEE, son of Andrew Jackson and Susan B.
Buford, married Harriet Hall in 1859. Children — Leonora, born
in 1861 ; Walter Lee, 1863 ; Harriet, 1865 ; Florence Porter, 1867 ;
Jackson, 1869; Wallace Hall, 1877, and Elizabeth Susan, 1881.

9. HENRY CLAY, son of Andrew Jackson and Susan B.
Buford, married Ella A. Tomlinson, January 9, 1867. Son —
Henry T., born July 9, 1869. Ella Tomlinson Buford died, and
Henry Clay Buford married, January 2, 1871, Mary E. Tomlin¬
son. Children — Pina, born May 28, 1875 ; Rober Sidney, August
11, 1877.

9. MARY AMELIA, daughter of Andrew Jackson and
Susan B. Buford, married Eugene D. Anderson in 1868. Children
— Mary Eugene, born in 1869; Edward J., 1871; Eva Desaix,
1873; Newton Hall, 1876.

9. ABRAHAM SPENCER, son of Andrew Jackson and
Susan B. Buford, married Mina Hill, in 1880. Children — Albert
Cecil, born in 1881, and Andrew Sloan, 1883.

9. TURNER MOORHEAD, son of Andrew Jackson and
Eliza M. Buford, married and had children, Bessie, Edward and
Marguerite.

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8. JAMES SIDNEY SMYTHE, son of Philemon and Sarah
Smythe Buford, married Josephine Griffin. Children — Reala
Eunice, born in 1854; Henry, 1861; Abraham Gallatin, 1863;
Hampton, 1870 and Willie (girl), 1872.

James Sidney Smythe Buford was a physician, Caddo, Texas,
where he died.

8. EUNICE, daughter of Philemon and Sarah S. Buford,
married William Shaw, of College Hill, Mississippi. Children —
Thomas, died young; Newton, killed in battle in 1864; Rufus
Polk, killed in battle; Richard died in hospital in Richmond, Vir¬
ginia; Helen, married William Toney; Sarah, married Mr. Knox.
Elizabeth, married William Toney, as his second wife.

7. LUNSFORD, son of Warren and Mary Beauford, mar¬
ried, first, Hannah Brown. Children — Jane; Morgan A., born in
South Carolina in 1797 ; Pamelia, John Warren, unmarried, died
in 1860, and Mary, unmarried. Lunsford Buford married a sec¬
ond time and had sons — Green and Washington.

8. MORGAN A., son of Lunsford and Hannah Brown Bu¬
ford, married, in 1839, in South Carolina, A. A. Rogers and
moved to College Hill, Mississippi. Children — James L., born in
1840, died in 1846; Morgan Parham, 1842, killed at Gettysburg
battle in 1863, and Mary Jane, 1844.

9. MARY JANE, daughter of Morgan A. and A. A. Rogers
Eufoid, married, in 1867, Dr. J. S. McCorkle, of College Hill,
Miss. Children — Stella, born in 1868; W. Buford and Jessie B.
(twins), 1871, and Annie Stewart, 1882. Home, Fort Smith, Ar¬
kansas.

10. STELLA, daughter of J. S. and Mary Jane Buford
McCorkle, married E. B. Pierce, of Little Rock, Arkansas, in
May, 1894. Have one son.

8. PAMELIA, daughter of Lunsford and Hannah B. Bu¬
ford, married Richard Skinner, of Alabama.

8. JANE, daughter of Lunsford and Hannah Brown Bu¬
ford, married William Hardin Toney, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Children — William Lunsford, born August 1, 1823; Cynthia E.,
March 15, 1825; Mary S., October 22, 1826; Sarah A., December
14, 1828; Waddy M., September 8, 1834; John F., August 14,
1838, killed in battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, November
24, 1863.

9. SARAH A., daughter of William H. and Jane Buford
Toney, married Mr. Carnathan. Children — Jane Glover and
Thomas J., of College Hill, Mississippi.

10. JANE GLOVER, daughter of Mr. and Sarah A. Carna¬
than, married in March, 1880, R. A. Shaw, and has children.

10. THOMAS J., son of Mr. and Sarah A. Carnathan, mar¬
ried, December 6, 1884, Mary Florence Tankersley.

7. WARREN, JR., son of Warren and Mary Beauford, mar¬
ried Elizabeth Armstrong, of Alabama. Children — James, who
died in 1824, and Albeit, bom in 1807.

Warren Buford, Jr., with his brother James, went from
South Carolina to Louisiana, in 1815, and settled on the Teche,
in St. Mary’s Parish. He and his wife, Elizabeth Armstrong
BTuford, died of cholera, in 1833.

8. ALBERT, son of Warren and Elizabeth A. Buford, mar¬
ried - . Children — Henry, Edward, Madison, Washington,

Alonzo, Louisa, Elvira and Alexander. They live in Terrebonne
Parish, Louisiana.

7. JAMES, son of Warren and Mary Beauford, married
Mary McNiece of South Carolina. Children — James Alexander,
born July 7, 1803; Thomas, 1805; William, 1808, ad Mary, 1811.

James Buford died in 1828. Mary McNiece Buford died in
1833.

8. JAMES ALEXANDER, son of James and Mary Mc¬
Niece Buford, married, September 24, 1835, Mary Rose, who was
born April 6, 1819. Her father married Josephine Lirette, of
Loraine, France. Children — Elvira P., born November 4, 1836;
Louisa J., June 9, 1838 ; Henry Harrison, June 28, 1840, died Sept.
13, 1840; Eliza A., Feb. 5, 1842, and Golden A., June 28, 1844.

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9. GOLDEN A., son of James Alexander and Mary Rose
Buford, married, January 30, 1873, Annie C. Stampler. Daugh¬
ter, born March 26, 1875.

Golden A. Buford lives at Chacahoula, Louisiana.

8. THOMAS, son of James and Mary McNiece Buford,
married, in 1836, Emelie Davee Merville, live at Houston, Texas,
born in 1818. Children — Mary P., boin in 1840; Joseph Warren,
October 17, 1842; William H., 1844; Robert B., 1847; Virginia,
Louisa, Elizabeth, Emma and Fedora.

Thomas Buford died December 20, 1888.

9. MARY P., daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married Louis Merville and lives in Houston, Texas.

9. JOSEPH WARREN, son of Thomas and Emelie D.

Buford, married Annie McEwen, who was born February 15,
1844. Children — Mary Josephine, born June 6, 1865;

John Howard, March 14, 1869; James Douglas, March 4, 1871,
and Henry McEwen, May 2, 1873, Gibson, Louisiana.

Joseph Warren died January 7, 1877. •

10. MARY JOSEPHINE, daughter of Joseph Warren and
Annie McEwen Buford, married, February 19, 1896, Katherine,
born June 20, 1859.

10. JAMES DOUGLASS, son of Joseph Warren and Annie
M. Buford, married, February 19, 1896, Katherine Fandal, born
July 23, 1874.

9. WILLIAM H., son of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married Eugenia Champaigne. Children — Nolan V., born Sep¬
tember 10, 1869; Bertha E., March 10, 1873; Nellie E., December
29, 1874; Thomas Edmond, December 18, 1876; Joseph William,
December 7, 1878; Josephine Elda, November 18, 1880; Paul Sid¬
ney, December 15, 1882; Ida Elizabeth, September 13, 1885, and
Mary Jessie, March 28, 1868, Abbeville, Louisiana.

10. NELLIE E., daughter of William H. and Eugenie C.
Buford, married Vernon Caldwell.

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9. ROBERT R., son of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford, mar¬
ried Mary Bondeaux. Children — Joshua, Thomas, Alfred and a
daughter, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

9. VIRGINIA, daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married W. A. Quick. Son — William A. Virginia Buford Quick
died January 7, 1897.

9. LOUISA, daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married T. C. Roby. A son — William.

9. ELIZABETH, daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Bu¬
ford, married L. Rogers.

9. EMMA, daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married D. Trahan. A son and daughter. Emma Buford Trahan
died in 1892.

9. FEDORA, daughter of Thomas and Emelie D. Buford,
married L. Toups. Three sons and a daughter. Fedora Buford
Toups died in 1889.

8. WILLIAM, son of James and Mary McNiece Buford,
married Mary Forette. Children — William, married Vititia
Vitel, in 1844; Estere, married Augustine Bergeron, in 1848;
Thomas, married Clara Gairie in 1850 ; Malvina, married Robert
Belanger in 1852; Sarah, married Valentine Dupre in 1856; El¬
mira, married Madia Hebert in 1859; Louisa, married Joseph
Piconie in 1862 ; Ellice, died young ; Margaret, married Alfred J.
Lirette in 1870; Alice, married Francis Babin in 1872. William
Buford lived in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and died Decem¬
ber 19, 1892.

8. MARY, daughter of James and Mary McNiece Buford,
married William Chamberlain, of Texas. One daughter — Mrs.
Fanny Mellons, Dallas, Texas.

6. CATHERINE, daughter of James and Mary Beauford,
married, in 1789, Rev. William Williamson, born September 23,
1762. Children — Mary, born in 1790, married James Ellison, died
in 1835; Nancy Newton, 1793, married W. B. Wilson, died in
1877 ; Elizabeth, July 14, 1795, married Robinson Baird, died in

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1877; Esther, January 4, 1797, married W. Kinkee, died January
13, 1880. (Son Williamson, and daughter Margaret, who mar¬
ried Charles Bidwell, of Columbus, Ohio.)

Catherine Buford Williamson died and William Williamson
married, for his second wife, Jane Smith. Their children were
Rev. Thomas Smith and Jane Smith.

Jane Smith Williamson, died and William Williamson mar¬
ried, for his third wife, Hannah Johnson.

William Williamson was a Presbyterian minister. In 1805
he was called to Ebenezer, Cabin Creek, Kentucky, where he lived
fifteen years. In 1819 he went to Southern Ohio and had charge
of churches at West Union and Manchester. He died on his farm,
“Beach Grove,” near Manchester, November 9, 1839.

6. DANIEL, son of James, Sr., and Mary Beauford, had
sons — James, born in 1788; Daniel; Peter, who died at Kingston,
near Rome, Georgia; John and Elizabeth.

7. JAMES, son of Daniel, born in 1788, married in Fair-
field District, South Carolina, Rebecca Outen. Children — Pres¬
ley, born in 1815; Rebecca, 1817; Daniel, John, Bird, William
and Moses, 1825.

James Buford died in Madison County, Florida, December
16, 1865.

Rebecca Outen Buford died in Madison County, Florida,
March 22, 1865.

8. PRESLEY, son of James and Rebecca Outen Buford,
married in Lawrence, Abbeyville District, South Carolina, Mary
Ann Thacker, who died at Rome, Georgia, in 1879. Children —
James Edward, born in 1838, died in 1861; John Wesley, 1840;
William Madison, May 24, 1849; Mary Ann, 1851 ; George Wash¬
ington, 1854, Rome, Georgia.

Presley Buford served in the Black Hawk and Florida wars.

9. WILLIAM MADISON, son of Presley and Mary A.
Thacker Buford, married, December 18, 1871, Frances Caroline
Harris, who was boin October 14, 1853. Children — George R.,

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born October 30, 1872; Ralph E., June 1, 1875; Freddie M., De¬
cember 13, 1879, died September 4, 1881; Noah E., January 22,
1883; Kate Lena, August 25, 1886, Mount Vernon, Illinois.

10. GEORGE R., son of William Madison and Frances
Harris Buford, married, April 24, 1894, Ellie Williamson.
Child — Cecil, born February 4, 1897.

10. RALPH E., son of William Madison and Frances Har¬
ris Buford, married, August 22, 1895, Mary E. Owen. Child — -
Emma, January 3, 1897.

8. REBECCA, daughter of James and Rebecca Outen Bu¬
ford, born September 17, 1817, married, January 12, 1837, R. N.
Dansby, Madison County, Florida.

8. BIRD, son of James and Rebecca Outen Buford, married

Martha - . Children — Monroe B., John A., William D.,

James, Lemuel Oliver, Samuel G., Robert Henry and Mary, Ab-
beyville, South Carolina.

Bird Buford died in 1872.

8. MOSES, son of James and Rebecca Outen Buford, born
May 16, 1825, married, August 1, 1850, Elizabeth Anna Ander¬
son, who died February 19, 1893. Children — Thomas Daniel,
born August 13, 1851 ; Savannah, July, 1852, died in August,
1853; Sarah Amanda, September 22, 1853; Mary Estelle, May
15, 1855; William D., December 24, 1856; James A., March 19,
1859; Joseph D., June 30, 1861; Edward F., December 24, 1863;
Julia A., August 24, 1865; Oliver H., October 9, 1871, Crystal
Springs, Mississippi.

9. THOMAS DANIEL, son of Moses and Elizabeth A. Bu¬
ford, married, December 21, 1875, Simmie Pittman, who was
born October 10, 1857. Children — Louis A., born May 9, 1877 ;
Annie L., January 24, 1881 ; Clara Julia, September 19, 1882, died
May 29, 1884; Thomas A., July 29, 1884; William Lott, December
9, 1887, died in September, 1894; Earl, July 30, 1889; Alice De-
lila, August 31, 1892; Shelly Ray, November 18, 1894; Mattie
Sue, October 21, 1896, Chapel Hill, Mississippi.

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9. SARAH AMANDA, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth A.
Buford, married, November 6, 1872, the Rev. J. C. Farrar, who
was born January 16, 1851. Children — William Malone, Janu¬
ary 19, 1874; Marshall Hilden, March 29, 1876; Charles Flowers,
October 30, 1876; Annie Laurie, August 25, 1879, died December
27, 1890; Robert Augustus, September 15, 1881; Albert Carter,
June 20, 1884; Martin Thomas, December 25, 1886; Clara
Estelle, September 2, 1888; Jessie Eliza, April 24, 1891; Frank
Edward, September 10, 1894, Gallman, Mississippi.

9. MARY ESTELLE, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth
Anderson Buford, married, December 14, 1876, Daniel T. Rather,
who was born May 28, 1849. Children — John Devrit, born Janu¬
ary 9, 1878; Louis E., November 15, 1880, died July 3, 1886;
Moses A., February 19, 1882; Daisy B., September 9, 1885;
Claude T., December 28, 1887 ; Mary G., April 16, 1890; Ettie L.,
August 3, 1892; Karl D., November 9, 1894, Chapel Hill, Hinds
County, Mississippi.

9. JAMES A., son of Moses and Elizabeth A. Buford, mar¬
ried, December 16, 1884, Carey Bell Cottingham, born February
22, 1864. Children — Frank Hilsom, born October 30, 1885 ; Eliz¬
abeth Ann, November 11, 1887; Willie May, May 18, 1890; Eva
Sturgies, November 25, 1892 ; Oliver Russell, November 30, 1896,
Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

9. JOSEPH D., son of Moses and Elizabeth Anderson Bu¬
ford, married Dora Parker, October 20, 1889. Children — Lester,
born July 31, 1890; Alda, January 25, 1892; Myrtice, October 20,
1894, Chapel Hill, Mississippi.

9. EDWARD FRANKLIN, son of Moses and Elizabeth
Anderson Buford, married, July 25, 1889, Mellie Flemming, born
September 20, 1856. Children — Harvie, born June 29, 1891, died
same day; Mary, August 18, 1893; Lillian L., December 26, 1894,
Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

9. OLIVER HALEY, son of Moses and Elizabeth Anderson
Buford, married, November 19, 1892, Lee Anner Parker. Child-

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dren — Byrdie Esther, born September 23, 1893; Inda Lavert,
September 26, 1894; Laura Lanelle, June 30, 1897, Crystal
Springs, Mississippi.

9. JULIA A., daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Anderson
Buford, married, February 18, 1884, J. A. Gonia, born August
16, 1861o Children — Constance Eugenia, born January 25, 1885;
Louis Franklin, December 8, 1888, died October 20, 1891 ; Hugh
Tracy, March 22, 1890 ; Benton Ander, September 3, 1893 ; Sarah
Estelle, June 21, 1895;. Joseph Bryant, May 9, 1897, Crystal
Springs, Mississippi.

4. THOMAS 3d, son of Henry and Mary Osborne Beauford,
born in Lancaster County, Virginia, April 11, 1716, never mar¬
ried. His home was on Flat Rock Creek, Cumberland Parish,
Lunenburg County, Virginia. His will is dated November 4,
1788. By it he bequeathed, in trust, to William Beaufort, James
Beauford and James Craig, clerk, for the benefit of the Protest¬
ant Episcopal Church, his lands, negroes, stock, money and to¬
bacco. They were to select three additional trustees, who were
vestrymen, to act with them, etc. He died in 1793.

CHAPTER XIX.

BUFORDS NOT PLACED

The deed book of Lancaster County, Virginia,, contains a
transfer of land by Jeremiah Beauford and his wife, Hannah,
to James Newby, dated November 28, 1754. Hannah was the
widow of Robert Wells, and the transfer was her dower right.

In the tax lists of Lancaster County, on file at the auditor’s
office, Richmond, Virginia, appears the name of George Blew-
ford, 1796, same as George Buford, 1789, same as George Bleu-
ford, 1799, and, for the last time, in 1800.

The name of George Buford appears in a list of non-commis¬
sioned officers and soldiers of the Virginia line who received
bounty lands.

The name John Bleauford, seaman, appears on a list of non¬
commissioned officers, seamen and marines who are entitled to
bounty lands for three years’ service.

The name of Joseph Buford appears on the lists of Revolu¬
tionary soldiers from Rhode Island.

Francis Marion Buford was born in Virginia in 1836; mar¬
ried in Ashley County, Alabama, April 10, 1869, Charlotte Geral¬
dine Norris, daughter of Patrick Norris, of Eleanora County,
Alabama, residing, at the time of his death, at Wetumpka, Ala¬
bama. Children — Thomas Parker, Francis Harper, born in Mon¬
roe, Louisiana, October 29, 1870, and Patrick Marion, February
10, 1874, in Birmingham, Alabama, died January 2, 1879.
Francis Marion left Virginia when he was quite young, went to
St. Louis, Missouri, then to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to
Little Rock, Arkansas, Fort Smith and Pine Bluff. His father’s
name was Francis or William; had a brother Benjamin and two
sisters. He was well educated, an architect and contractor by
profession. After his marriage, he lived in Helena, Arkansas,
and Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama. He died in Helena,
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Arkansas, in 1876. Francis Harper married and, for some years,
lived in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his mother now live in
Battle Creek, Michigan.

Buford, Lynchburg, Virginia; John, on “Hickory Grove/’
Charlotte County, Virginia, son of William Pride; Daniel, mar¬
ried, first, Spencer and, second, Frances A. Duprey; daughter,
Kate, married Samuel Clark ; their daughter, Laura Clark, mar¬
ried a Buford of Lynchburg, Virginia. — Virginia Genealogies,
Hayden.

Mrs. A. G. McGirt, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a
Buford.

Benjamin F. Buford, formerly of Danville, Indiana.

William M. Buford, president and director of “Sepeonza
Musical Club” (incorporated), 4226 Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois, said his father was from Tennessee and moved to Little
Rock, Arkansas; was for a while professor in high school; re¬
signed his school work and became founder and editor of a news¬
paper, which he called Buford and Son Publishing Company ; his
father died a few years later. William M. Buford was born De¬
cember 1, 1893, and can remember very little about his father, he
was so small when he died.

Charles F. Buford and wife, of Portland, Oregon, said they
shortened their name. They are young people (1924). He is a
contractor and builder. His father, Charles L. Beauford, was
born in Rochester, New York, and was a conductor on the Chicago
& Alton Railroad. His mother was Jenny Ridley Beauford, of
804 South Oak Street, Bloomington, Illinois, and his aunt, Miss
Clara Beauford. His grandfather, John Beauford, was born in
Paris, France.

There is a Buford family residing at West Plains, Missouri,
which has a daughter Agnes.

Mr. Buford resides at Birch Tree, Missouri. He is unmar¬

ried.

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There was a Simeon Buford, who probably lived in Alabama
and married Mary Jane Coon, Coffee County, Alabama. Chil¬
dren — Oliver, Henry, Wilborne, Jamison and Cornelius. Simeon
died in Central Texas, and his son Wilborne lived there when last
heard from.

OLIVER H., son of Simeon and Mary Jane Coon Buford,
married Mary E. Musgrove, of Coffey County, Alabama. He
was killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky., during the Civil War,
age 26 years. Children — John Simeon, William Jefferson, Gor¬
don Jamison and Oliver Henry, Jr.

JOHN SIMEON, son of Oliver Henry, Sr., and Mary E. Mus¬
grove Buford, married Mary E. Andress, of Monroe County, Ala¬
bama. No children. Residence, Peterman, Alabama.

WILLIAM JEFFERSON, son of Oliver Henry and Mary E.
Musgrove Buford, married and had one child, a daughter, Bertha
Lee, who married Charles Floyd, who is agent of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad, at Peterman, Alabama. They have a son,
Charles Raymond, born in 1920, and a little daughter, born April
2, 1923. William Jefferson Buford is dead.

GORDON JAMISON, son of Oliver Henry, Sr., and Mary E.
Musgrove Buford, married Nancy Catherine Lathram, Septem¬
ber 16, 1886. She died February 18, 1902. He was born April 8,
1862, and died January 29, 1922. Children — Zula Jane, born
October 20, 1887; Sam Gordon, July 22, 1889; Walter, October
26, 1891; Annibel, April 26, 1893; Mark S., December 12, 1896;
Ruth Carolyn, March 10, 1899 ; Mary Catherine, February, 1902,
died May 6, 1906.

ZULA JANE, daughter of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram
Buford, married Cary Lee Murphy, May 24, 1910. Children —
Clyde Lee, born March 1, 1912; James Buford, June 18, 1914,
died October 20, 1918; Catherine Margaret, December 15, 1918;
Max, January 2, 1919 ; John Thomas, July 29, 1921, Peterman, Al-
abama.

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453

SAM GORDON, son of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram
Buford, married Gwendolyn Helton, July 5, 1917. Children — A
child unnamed, born December 24, 1920, died the same day ; Sam
Gordon. Jr., December 29, 1922, Repton, Alabama, where he is
railroad operator.

WALTER, son of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram Buford,
is unmarried and connected with the creamery plant at Salem,
Alabama. During the World War he was with the wireless, 81st
Division.

ANNIBEL, daughter of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram
Buford, married Ben Howard Baker, May 6, 1918. Child — Betty
Jane, born April 15, 1920. Annibel was a teacher before she
married, Clayton, Alabama.

MARK S., son of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram Buford,
is unmarried and lives at Peterman, Alabama. He is a railroad
operator, and did service in the World War.

RUTH C., daughter of Gordon J. and Nancy C. Lathram Bu¬
ford, married Otis 0. Bayles, September 26, 1919. Child — Mary
Ruth, born August 27, 1920, was a teacher before she married,
Monroeville, Alabama.

WILBORN, son of Simeon and Mary Jane Coon Buford,
married a daughter of Captain Kenney, of Elba, Coffee County,
Alabama. Mr. Kenney was a captain in the Civil War and took
an active part in the battle of Perrysville, Kentucky. When last
heard from he was in Central Texas.

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CHAPTER XX— SOLDIERS

Abraham Buford Barnett James Malcolm Luck, Lieut.; Wm. Buford
Braudus Schnebly, Robt. Edward McGhee, Alvah Carlton Luck, Hugh A.
Luck, Raymond R. Fizer. — Soldiers, World War.

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455

Geo. Phillip Luck, Abraham Buford Luck, Ray G. Buford, W. E. Caffey,

Don L. Buford, Harry Buford Beagle, - , Nelson M. Buford,

killed in action. — Soldiers, Word War.

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

1. CORPORAL ABRAHAM BUFORD BARNETT en¬
listed in the Signal department of the U. S. Army at Roanoke,
Va., July 16, 1917; was sent to Camp Fort Thomas, Kentucky,
thence to San Antonio, Texas, Kelly Field, five months; was in
the 82nd Aero Squadron, transferred to Garden City, N. Y., to
Casualty Squadron; attached to headquarters, transferred to
16th Aero Squadron, where he remained until the close of the
war. He was made a first Corporal. He was machinist in charge
of the aeroplanes, whose duty it was to test and inspect the planes
before they were sent up.

2. LIEUTENANT JAMES MALCOLM LUCK volunteered
June 16, 1917, Fortress Monroe, Virginia, Second Officers Train¬
ing Camp, August 21, 1917 ; appointed Second Lieutenant, Field
Artillery, November 27, 1917. He was in several camps of train¬
ing in France, was assigned the 56th Coast Artillery Regiment ;
was in many of the hard fought battles, second Battle of the
Marne, July 25, 1918; arrived at rail head on front town of La
Flerte July 27, 1918; went into action at Drevigny just back of
Vasle and Aisne River on August 1, 1918; left this front on
left of Verdun; started drive on Germans, September 26, 1918;
pushed on to Sedan November 13, 1918; returned with regiment
to Chaumont where equipment was turned over to quartermas¬
ter; was discharged and returned home, Roanoke, Virginia.

3. WILLIAM BUFORD BRAUDUS SCHNEBLY was in
the service of the United States during the World War, stationed
at Camp Lewis, Seattle, Washington.

4. ROBERT EDWARD McGHEE entered the service of
United States during the World War and was sent to Camp Hum¬
phrey, Virginia. His home, Bedford City, Virginia.

5. ALVAH CARLTON LUCK was in the service of United
States during the World War, Corporal, Supply Company, 31st
Field Artillery, stationed at Camp Mead, Maryland. Home, Bed¬
ford, Virginia.

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457

6. SERGEANT HUGH A. LUCK was in the service of
United States for about two years during the World War, was
made Sergeant, Company A, 354th Inft., 89th Division, A. E .F.
He was in many of the hard fought battles. He was discharged
and came to his home at Gorin, Missouri, after the armistice
was signed.

7. CORPORAL RAYMOND R. FIZER was in the service
of United States during the World War; was made Corporal,
Company A, 317th Infantry, 80th Division, A. E. F. ; was in
many of the hard fought battles — St. Mihiel, Meuse, Argonne
offensive, Bois des Ogens, Natillois; Triacourt Ared from 13
to 24, October ; wounded at Busancy some time last of October ;
sent to hospital on November 6, 1918; received medal of honor
for bravery, Chateau Thierry; in France fourteen months; in
trenches at Doullens and Your; was discharged after the armis¬
tice was signed; came back to his home, Bedford City, Virginia,
and has since married.

SOLDIERS

1. GEORGE PHILIP LUCK was sent to Camp Humphrey,
Virginia, for training; was in Company B, Seventh Regiment
Engineers at first, but later when the “flu” became so bad, he
was transferred to the medical department, serving there.
Home, Bedford, Virginia.

2. ABRAHAM BUFORD LUCK served two years In
France. He was from Virginia.

3. CORPORAL RAY G. BUFORD, when drafted, was sent
to Camp Lewis for training ; was eighteen months in the service.
He was in the Battle of St. Mihiel from September 10 to Septem¬
ber 13, 1918, and the Battle of Meuse-Argonne, September 26 to
October 12, 1918; also Ypres Lys (Belgium), October 31 to
November 11, 1918. He was made Corporal August 9, 1918.

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

He returned to United States April 16, 1919. Home, Los An¬
geles, California.

4. WILLIAM EDWARD COFFEY was in the service or
the United States, stationed at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ken¬
tucky, the Fifth Observation Battery, C. 0. T. S. Field Artillery.
Home, Queen City, Missouri.

5. SERGEANT DON LEROY BUFORD enlisted in the
regular army at the time America entered the World War. He
was made Sergeant in his company ; served six months with the
A. E. F. in France. Home, Kiowa, Kansas.

6. LUTHER 0. SALLEE enlisted in the Navy of the
United States during the World War and was in the New York
yards; received injuries from which he has never recovered.
Home, Gorin, Missouri.

7. HARRY BUFORD BEAGLE entered the United States
service during the World War and was in Company D, 30th Bat¬
talion, Fort Gibbons, Alaska. Home, Seattle, Washington.

8. CORPORAL NELSON MILTON BUFORD entered the
Marine Corps; was sent to France in 1918; was Corporal of the
34th Company, First Replacement Battalion, U. S. M. C., at the
time of his death. According to the Government report he was
killed in action June 9, 1918. Home, Kiowa, Kansas.

BUFORD

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459

SUNSET

When the evening shadows lengthen,
And the day is almost o’er,

And the Sun, with all his splendor,
Paints the sky for you once more;
When, with his golden sunbeams,
Tinting meadow, glade and glen,
Giving clouds a silver lining,

Speaks loud, ’tis all for men.

When the Day King sinks in glory,
And man’s daily work is done,

Let him praise the Great Creator
With each setting of the sun,

Mildred Buford Minter.

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

BUFORD

INDEX

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WORLD WAR SOLDIERS

Roger Elmer Hefley, 74.

R. Y. Turner, Jr., 118.

Dr. Virgil Kinnard, 124.

James F. Sullivan, 187.

J. Orval Sullivan, 187.

James Edwin Buford, 192.

Corporal Ray G. Buford, 201.

Jay Wane Buford, 203.

Harry Buford Beagle, 207.

William Edward Coffye, 220.

Simeon Robert Buford, 235.

William Buford Braudus Schnebly, 242.
Luther O. Sallee, 245.

Corporal Raymond R. Fizer, 246.

Sergeant Don LeRoy Buford, 254.
Corporal Nelson Milton Buford, 254.
Lieutenant James Malcolm Luck' 256.
Corporal Abraham Buford Barnett, 257
Sergeant Hugh A. Luck, 257.

Abraham Buford Luck, 257.

George Phillip Luck, 258.

Corporal Alvah Carlton Luck, 258.
Robert Edward McGhee, 258.

Earl M. Coffman, 261.

Mark Nicholas Buford, 392.

Captain Edward Buford 3rd, 407.
William Wirt Buford, 408.

Mark S. Buford, 453.

Walter Buford, 453.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Captain John Thomas Buford, 58.
John Lewis, 75.

William Lewis, 75.

Captain James Buford, 78.

John Buford, Sr., 78.

Major Calvin Buford, 78.

Colonel Abraham Buford, 79.

William Early Buford, 82.
Walter Burnside, 119.

Dr. William Read, 135.
Captain Henry Buford, 173.
Major Thomas Quirk, 173.
Ensign Simeon Buford, 306.
Colonel Jeremiah Buford, 350.

UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY

William Buford, Jr., 355.

Shad Buford, 78.

Benjamin Rogers, 81.

John Buford Parks, 81.

Dr. Oliver Henry Buford, 103 (Spanish-
American War).

Thomas Buford, 107 (War of 1812).
Captain Abner Baker, 111 (War of 1812).
James Burnside, 119 (War of 1812).

Major General Irvin McDowell, 142.
Captain Cassius M. Clay, 147 (Mexican
War).

Colonel Thomas Marshall, 147 (Mexican
War).

Captain James Buford Jackson, 147.

Major Louis Marshall Buford, 149.

Major Theodore Edson, 149.

Lloyd Horwitz Chanler, 149 (U. S. Navy).
Adj. Gen. Charles Alexander Buford, 156.
Lieut. William Robertson Buford, 156.

Captain Marcus Bainbridge Buford, 157
(U. S. Navy).

General John Buford, 169.

General Green Clay Smith, 170 (Mexican
War).

Captain James Stoner, 170 (Mexican
War).

Captain Paschal Buford, 173 (War of
1812).

Lieutenant Thomas Buford, Sr., 184
(War of 1812).

John E. Israel, 187.

Lieutenant George Washington Buford,
201 (Indian War).

Major Thomas Jerry Buford, 202 (Indian
War).

Joseph Edwards, 205 (Indian War).

John Alexander Buford, 207 (Mexican
War).

Colonel Joseph Kent, 286 (War of 1812).

Major General Napoleon Bonaparte Bu¬
ford, 311.

Major General John Buford, 312.

Brigadier General James Franklin Bell,
319.

Captain George K. Sanderson, 320.

Lieutenant Ernest Garlington, 320.

George Washington Buford, 347.

Abraham Buford, 360.

Commodore Domenick Lynch, 375.

Christopher Young Buford, 422 (Mexican
War).

Presley Buford, 446 (Indian War).

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

INDEX

CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

Green Buford, 62.

Charles Abraham Wickliffe Buford, 91.
James Thomas Buford, 93.

Joseph Shopshire Buford, 94.

Alfred Jackson Buford, 102.

Dr. Harvey Baker, 116.

James White, 123.

Colonel James S. Jackson, 147.

Willis F. Jones, 155.

George Whitfield Troutman, 155.

William Doddridge Otey, 180.

James Walter Otey, 181.

Reuben S. Buford, 198.

Massanello Marion Buford, 213.

John Thompson Lewis, 219.

Major William Buford, 249.

Edward William Luck, 255.

James L. Buford, 259.

E. M. Buford, 262.

Eldridge C. Buford, 262.

John Quincy Adams Buford, 276.
William R. Terry, 276.

Julius Blackburn Buford, 281.

Captain Thomas L. Cobbs, 283.
Lieutenant James Henry Langhorne, 287.
Lieutenant Jacob Kent Langhorne, 287.
Major Alfred L. Mayer, 291.

Captain Samuel F. Chapman, 293.
Captain William Chapman, 293.

Lieut. Colonel William H. Chapman, 294.
General Abraham Buford, 327.

Haywood Buford, 346.

Mayo Cabell, 353.

Colonel Samuel Early, 353.

General Jubal Anderson Early, 353.
Thomas Edward Buford, 373.

Lieutenant Colonel John W. Buford, 387.
Lewis Cass Buford, 390.

Eldbridge Gerry Buford, 390.

James Thomas Buford, 393.

Captain David Rhea, 394.

Major James P. Douglas, 403.

Edward Buford 2d, 405.

William H. Pointer, 408.

Colonel Jefferson Buford, 412.

Nathaniel Ridley Alexander, 415.

Isaac Newton Gaston, 425.

James McFadden Gaston, 425.

Captain J. Lucius Gaston, 425.

John David Buford, 434.

John Elihu Harper Buford, 436.

Hampton Aubrey Buford, 438.

John Jones Quarles, 438.

Thomas Philemon Buford, 439.

Goodloe Warren Buford, 439.

Joseph P. C. Buford, 439.

Walter Scott Buford, 439.

Morgan Parham Buford, 439.

Newton Shaw, 442.

Rufus Polk Shaw, 442.

Richard Shaw, 442.

John F. Toney, 443.

Oliver H. Buford, 452.

INDEX

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BEAUFORD

Abraham, 36, 38, 358.

Agatha, 35.

Ambrose, 32, 33.

Ann, 35, 36, 350, 354, 355.

Catherine, 358, 376.

Charles L., 451.

Clara, 451.

Elizabeth, 32, 33, 35, 36, 350, 354, 358,
435.

Elizabeth Lucretia, 357.

Elizabeth Owen, 355.

Elizabeth Parrott, 28, 31, 32.

Emma Corbet, 357.

Eunice Warren, 435.

Frances, 36, 357, 358, 376, 379, 427, 430,
435.

Francis, 355.

Frances June, 357.

Gillner, 435.

Hannah, 450.

Henry, 32, 36, 355, 358, 376, 379, 427,
430, 432, 435, 449.

Henry, Jr., 355, 358.

James, 35, 36, 355, 358, 432, 433, 435, 445,
446, 449.

Jenny Ridley, 451.

Jeremiah, 450.

John, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 75, 78,
173, 174, 184, 293, 300, 355, 358, 366,
450, 451.

Josiah, 358.

Judith Early, 35, 36, 37, 75, 78, 173, 174,
184, 293, 300.

LeRoy, 358.

Letitia, 358.

Mary, 28, 32, 35, 36, 350, 354, 357, 358,
432, 442, 443, 445, 446.

Mary Osborne, 355, 358, 432, 433, 435,

449.

Mary Parsons, 355.

Mary Ragsdale, 358.

Philemon, 435.

Richard, 28.

Sarah, 35, 350, 354, 358.

Sarah Smythe, 435.

Simeon, 36, 38.

Susannah, 32, 33.

Thomas, 28, 32, 350, 355, 358, 432.
Thomas, Jr., 32, 35, 36, 350, 354.

William, 35, 36, 38, 355, 358, 449.

William, Jr., 355, 357.

William June, 357.

Warren, 435, 442, 443.

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BUFORD

Abert

Cecil,

441.

Abraham, 39, 41

, 47,

48.

49, 50, 53,

54.

55,

78, 79

, 89,

94, 97, 98, 99,

133,

135,

136,

137,

138,

139,

140,

145,

149,

167,

173,

174,

206,

223,

229,

246,

248,

255,

258,

269,

271,

322,

324,

327,

329,

330,

331,

360,

367,

370,

371,

381,

393,

400,

403,

433.

Abraham Don Carlos,

248,

253.

Abraham Gallatin, 442.

Abraham Lumpkin, 206.

Abraham Spencer, 441.

Abram, 435.

Abram Calvin, 440.

Abram V., 381.

Ada, 403.

Ada Goff, 91.

Ada Stephenson, 428, 429, 430.

Adaline Noble Wood, 211.

Addie J., 60, 61, 382.

Adeline A. B., 340.

Agatha, 145.

Agnes, 42, 270, 451.

Albert, 393, 395, 397, 398, 399, 402, 443.
Albert Casern, 199, 205.

Albert Drake, 262.

Albert Gallatin, 435, 440, 441.

Albert Lewis, 398.

Albert Lindley, 398, 399.

Albert S., 198.

Albert Sherman, 262.

Albert Sidney, 387.

Alberta Liela, 102, 103.

Aleaner Watkins, 262.

Algernon Sidney, 371, 372.

Alda, 448.

Aielia 433

Alexander, 89, 97, 98, 107, 324, 443.
Alexander Bryan, 107.

Alfred, 445.

Alfred Henry, 102.

Alfred Jackson, 101, 102, 103.

Alfred Welsh, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103.
Alice 385, 423, 445.

Alice Bell, 85.

Alice B. Shelby, 338.

Alice Cassey, 423.

Alice Davis, 194.

Alice Delila, 447.

Alice Dismukes, 398.

Alice Dale Duncan, 385.

Alice Golden, 242.

Alice May, 384.

Alice M. Osborne, 391, 392.

Alice Susan, 370.

Alice Venable, 84.

Alma, 194.

Almira Margarette Griffin, 337, 341.
Almorinda C., 421.

Alonzo, 443.

Alow S., 196.

Allie Harris, 240.

Alvin Lee, 429.

Allen Roberts, 434.

Allie Willis, 96.

Amanda, 81, 348.

Amanda C., 233.

Amanda Funkenberry, 45.

Amanda Harris, 327.

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INDEX

Amanda J. Depp, 346.

Amanda Jane, 346.

Amanda Jones, 347, 348.

Amanda Melvina, 84, 86.

Amanda Pointer, 395.

Amanda Pugh, 404, 427, 430.

Amanda Rebecca Kyle, 412.

Amanda Staples, 229, 231, 233, 235,
241, 242, 243, 244, 245.

Amanda Savage, 348
Amanda Victoria, 233, 245.

Amelia, 89, 99, 106, 132, 427.

Amelia H., 383, 384.

Amelia Jane, 419.

Amarilla Baugh, 387, 388.

Amy, 235.

America Catherine, 84, 85.

America Moore, 49, 50, 53, 54.
Ambrose, 78, 83, 89, 94, 95, 99, 432.
Ambrose Fisher, 83, 97, 89.

Amos, 434.

Anderson, 320.

Andrew, 367, 370.

Andrew Jackson, 435, 441.

Andrew J., 386.

Andrew Jenkins, 373.

Andrew Marshall, 101, 103.

Andrew Slogn, 441.

Andrew William, 102, 103.

Angeline, 296.

Angeline Sheckles, 233.

Ann Bannister, 169.

Ann Cook, 132.

Ann Jane, 267, 282.

Ann Mary, 87, 89.

Ann Merry, 322, 324.

Ann Mary Fisher, 83, 87, 89.

Ann Margaretta, 374, 375.

Ann Ragsdale, 427.

Ann Rogers, 420.

Ann Watts, 39, 41, 46, 70.

Anna, 75.

Anna Mary, 252.

Anna Bowers, 318, 320.

Annabel, 346.

Annibel, 452, 453.

Anne, 14-7, 149.

Anne Bannister Watson, 306, 307,
318, 321.

Anne H. LeSuer, 390.

Anne Porter, 390.

Anna Duglas, 395.

Annie, 193, 433.

Annie Bassett, 382.

Annie Belle, 59, 60, 62.

Annie Gilbert, 402.

Annie Grace, 438.

Annie L., 447.

Annie L. Cook Calloway, 201.

Annie McEwen, 444.

Annie M. Pate, 46, 47, 56, 57, 69.
Annie Laura, 263, 345.

Annie Laura Barnette, 383.

Annie Eliza Rebecca, 412.

Annie Esther, 418.

Annie Nichols, 262.

Annie Gordon, 394, 395.

Annie Simpson, 243.

Annie Stample, 444.

Annie Graham, 269, 271.

Annie W. Hellins, 408.

Annie Wills, 265.

Annie Worthington, 338.

Anthony Abe, 53.

Archimedes, 427.

Argie, 62.

Arlotte Carty, 57, 59, 62, 63.

Arthur B., 194.

Arthur Duglass, 196.

Audry B., 244.

Augusta, 440.

Augusta D., 430.

Augusta Dirson, 428.

239,

312,

Basil Duke, 145, 149.

Beatrice, 383.

Bedford Forest, 265.

Benjamin, 379, 381, 450.

Benjamin A., 194.

Benjamin C., 435.

Benjamin F., 451.

Benjamin Frost, 346.

Benjamin M., 383.

Benjamin Watkins, 382, 383.

Belle Mason, 90.

Belinda D. Miller, 390, 391.

Bena Childers, 395.

Bertha, 196, 398, 399.

Bertha Audra, 203.

Bertha E., 444.

Bertha Hatton, 398.

Bertha Lee, 452.

Bertha Maud, 202, 203.

Bertha Virginia, 239, 240.

Bessie, 96, 242, 383, 422, 441.

Bessie B., 235.

Bessie Lee, 263.

Bessie May, 388.

Beulah, 196.

Billie Bob, 244.

Bird, 446, 447.

Blanche, 49, 53, 145.

Betsy, 184.

Bettie, 96, 381.

Betty Burks, 270, 272.

Bettie Morgan, 381.

Bettie Shropshire, 94, 95.

Blackshear, 443.

Bonnibel Stowers, 272.

Bramblett, 399.

Britton Jackson, 263.

Brittania A., 338.

Burrell Stanton, 206.

Byrd, 404, 435.

Byrdie Esther, 449.

Bennie Meadows, 345.

Cadmus, 340.

California Carty, 43, 44.

Callie Frederick, 382.

Callohil Mennis, 207.

Calvin, 78, 428.

Calyin Tate, 428, 429, 430.

Carman Robert, 67.

Candius C., 434.

Carey Bell Cattingham, 448.

Caremay, 415.

Carrie Copeland, 54.

Carrie Cowan, 94, 95.

Carrie Myrtle, 25S.

Carrie Caldwell, 370.

Caroline, 262, 265, 440.

Caroline Augusta Black, 415.

Caroline Eloise, 418.

Caroline Haaspeth, 432, 433.

Caroline Tankersley, 440.

Carson C., 262.

Carvossa W., 432.

Carter Martin, 49, 53, 54.

Catherine, 97, 98, 373, 375, 379, 384, 386,
410, 432.

Catherine Williams, 434, 435.

Catherine D., 83, 84.

Cecil Leon, 45.

Catherine Young, 419, 423.

Cecil, 447.

Charles, 49, 59, 67, 107, 133, 145, 146, 147,
149, 367, 369, 379, 389, 390, 392, 393,
404, 441.

Charles A., 430.

Charles Abraham Wickliffe, 20, 90, 91.
Charles Alexander, 149, 155, 156.

Charles Allison, 345.

Charles Beauregard, 403.

Charles Dudley, 408.

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Charles F., 451.

Charles H., 155, 156.

Charles Hicks, 233, 239, 243.

Charles James Fox, 371, 372.

Charles L., 423.

Charles N., 404.

Charles Pate, 59.

Charles S., 149.

Charles T., 194.

Charles Thomas, 370.

Charles Watthall, 370, 371.

Charles Walter, 50, 54.

Charles Wellington, 244.

Charles Wesley, 241.

Channing R., 196.

Charlotte, 145, 147, 379, 393.

Charlotte Garaldine Norris, 450.
Chapman, 107.

OVipI spa Q

Christolheer Young, 421, 422, 423.
Cicely E., 421.

Clara, 395, 399.

Clara L., 96.

Clara Gairie, 445.
o lorn Tnlifl 4 4 7

Clara Lindley Reed, 395, 397, 399.

Clara Belle Morris, 253, 254.

Claribel, 207.

Claris Ethel, 250.

Clarence Alvin, 239, 240.

Clarence C., 250.

Clarence R., 194.

Clarence W., 99.

Clark, 399.

Clark Howe, 320.

Clay, 96.

Clayton A., 94.

Claude, 390.

Claude Elmo, 325.

Claude Owen, 263.

Clementine Good, 192.

Cles Clotea, 250.

Cleveland, 99.

Clifford R., 94, 95.

Clifford Barnell, 262.

Coleman G., 340.

Columbia Thomas, 94, 95.

Conway, 434.

Cora, 49, 54, 421.

Cora F., 196.

Cora May, 263.

Cora L. Cook, 201.

Corda Gladys, 250, 251.

Cornelius, 452.

Cornelius H., 373.

Corinne, 345, 385.

Corinne Cannon, 395.

Cortie, 90.

Courtney Elizabeth, 400.

Courtney Selves Gordon, 400, 401, 402.
Coweest, 428.

Crosby, 433.

Cuniff, 349.

Curtis Otey, 264.

Cynthia, 286.

Cynthia Taylor, 262, 263.

Cyrena Emolin, 101, 102, 103.

Cynthia Shaw, 439.

Daisy, 242.

Daniel, 84, 432, 446, 451.

David E., 430.

David Fenton, 284.

David H., 433.

Dean, 241.

Decatur, 421.

DeLacey Abernathy, 392.

Delaus Jesse, 233, 244.

Delbert Jewell, 67.

Delia, 395, 397, 402.

Delia McCormick, 402.

Delia Taylor, 395, 397.

Deliah Chitwood, 59, 63, 64, 67.

Della, 63.

Della May, 45.

Denty, 392.

Diana, 223, 225.

Dixie, 440.

Didomia, 411, 415.

Don Leroy, 253, 254.
Donald Williams, 262.
Donaldson, 441.

Donna Elsie, 403.

Donna Rebecca, 437.
Dora Ann, 192.

Dora Olive, 250.

Dora Parker, 448.
Dorthy, 434.

Dorothy Frances, 345.
Dovie Wholchel, 429.
Duglas B., 196.
Duncastle, 262, 264, 265.

E. M., 262.

E. Blanche Stephens, 385.

E. Catherine, 411, 412, 432.

E. Fletcher, 263.

Earl, 447.

Eaza, 45.

Eddie Lou, 99.

Edith Pearl, 429.

Edward, 99, 379, 393, 394, 401, 402, 403,
404, 405, 407, 408, 427, 441, 443.

Edward B., 381.

Edward F., 447.

Edward Franklin, 101, 103, 448.

Edward Hardy-, "^373.

Edward Langdon, 102.

Edward Livingston, 439.

Edward Price, 367.

Edward W., 427, 428.

Edward Ann Morrison, 311, 312.

Edwin Kuykendall, 192.

Edwin N., 195, 196.

Edwin R., 191, 192, 193, 194.

Edwin Richardson, 233, 244.

Edwin T., 196.

Edwin Wall, 430.

Effie C., 235, 239.

Effie Lloyd, 227.

Elby D., 263.

Eldridge C., 262.

Eldridge Gerry, 390.

Eleanor Clyde, 261.

Eleanor Hardy, 206, 207, 211, 218, 219.
Eleanor Louise, 404, 408.

Eleanor McIntosh, 149, 155.

Eleanor Ray, 405.

Eleanor Ray Pointer, 404, 407, 408.
Eliza, 48, 56, 81, 107, 393, 399, 403, 415.
Eliza A., 444.

Eliza A. Packard, 63.

Eliza Catherine, 248, 251.

Eliza G., 191, 198.

Eliza Jane, 90, 91.

Eliza Johnson, 99.

Eliza Moorhead, 441.

Eliza Stringer, 345, 346.

Eliza Whitaker, 263.

Elizabeth, 42, 48, 49, 78, 81, 99, 195, 106,
109, 173, 175, 205, 206, 228, 306, 343,
346, 390, 400, 418, 432, 433, 444, 445,
446.

Elizabeth A., 404.

Elizabeth Ann, 84.

Elizabeth Ann Anderson, 447, 448, 449.
Elizabeth Ardelia, 233, 235.

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
99, 105,
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth

Augusta, 428.
Armstrong 443.

B.. 391, 392.

Black, 408.
Bramblett, 78, 82,
107.

Calloway, 79, 81.
Cloyd, 284, 285.
Coleman, 433, 435.

83,

89, 94,

466

HISTORY AND

GENEALOGY

INDEX

Elizabeth Davis Irvin, 47, 48, 49.
Elizabeth E., 339, 432.

Elizabeth Elliston, 405.

Elizabeth G., 428.

Elizabeth Gabriella, 337, 342.

Elizabeth Gates, 109.

Elizabeth Giddons, 383, 384, 428.
Elizabeth Hamilton Taylor, 402.
Elizabeth Holmes Singleton, 324, 325,

326.

Elizabeth Irvin, 55. 56.

Elizabeth Jane, 233, 234.

Elizabeth Jennings, 387.

Elizabeth Kate German, 211, 214.
Elizabeth Marshall, 146.

Elizabeth Mary, 434.

Elizabeth Media, 392.

Elizabeth P., 381.

Elizabeth Pearl, 429.

Elizabeth Pierce, 184, 191, 198, 205.
Elizabeth R., 156.

Elizabeth Shelby, 337. 338, 339.

Elizabeth Shouse, 109.

Elizabeth Stone, 367.

Elizabeth Susan, 441.

Elizabeth Terrill, 99.

Elizabeth Thompson, 427.

Elizabeth Tower, 357.

Elizabeth Twyman, 340, 341, 342.
Elizabeth W., 345.

Elizabeth W. Brandon, 390.

Elizabeth Walker, 322, 327.

Elizabeth Will, 262, 263.

Elizabeth Watkins, 397.

Elijah, 306, 344, 345, 346.

Elijah R., 184, 190

Ella,
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ella
Ellice,
Ellen,
Ellen
Ellen
Ellen
Ellen
Ellen
Elma
Elmer

326.

A. Tomlinson, 441.
Layman, 91.

M. Jinkins, 373.

M. Kimeabrow, 102, 103.
Mathews, 155.

Maze, 271.

Smith, 437.

Stakes, 390.

W., 430.

Williamson, 447.

445.

156.

Catherine, 264.
McNary, 189.

L. Stephenson, 405.
Thomas, 388.
Zeverly, 369.

C., 187.

J., 196.

44, 45.

Elmina Shy,

Elmira, 445.

Elsie, 402.

Elsie Mayo Strother, 372.

Elva Lee, 65.

Elvira, 403, 439, 443.

Elvira Bryan, 403.

Elvira P., 443.

Emeline Taylor, 84, 86, 87.

Emeline Powell, 87.

Emetine Swigert, 318, 320.

Emily, 187, 190, 372, 413, 418, 421, 428.
Emily A. Neal, 373.

Emily Davee Morville, 444, 445.

Emily Elizabeth, 94, 95.

Emily Grace, 265.

Emily J. Crutcher, 430.

Emily Murley, 184, 185, 186.

Emily Ridley, 411.

Emily Thomas, 107, 109.

Emily Townes, 372.

Emma, 97, 444, 445, 447.

Emma Gallatin, 440.

Emma Gray, 382.

Emma Inman, 54.

Emma J. Hardy, 373, 377.

Emma Jane, 91.

Emma Louisa, 382, 383.

Emma Sidney Byers, 387, 388.

Emma Virginia Hardy, 373, 377.

Emma W., 338, 339.

Emmet, 367.

Enid R., 196.

Enid Poxey, 388.

Etnestine Eunice, 438.

Estere, 445.

Esther, 411.

Esther Ann Shibly, 244.

Esther Amelia Caroline, 44, 415, 418, 421.
Esther Eaves, 412, 415, 417, 418.

Ethel, 50, 55, 398, 399.

Ethel D., 198.

Ethel Douglas, 39D.

Ethel Louise, 399.

Eugene, 388.

Eugenia Champaigne, 444.

Eunice, 430, 435, 442.

Eunice Maud, 440.

Eunice Warren, 436, 439.

Eutalee, 60.

Eva Anna, 45.

Eva Dickens, 419.

Eva Fay, 250.

Eva May, 201.

Eva Sturgils, 448.

Eveline Sigourrey, 440.

Evalyn, 385, 386.

Evalyn T. Swan, 97.

Evan, 339, 340.

Fannie, 97, 98, 348.

Fannie B. Cooper, 263.

Fannie Bouldin, 370.

Fannie E., 258, 260.

Fannie M., 96.

Fannie L. Christopher, 149.

Fannie O., 382.

Fedora, 444, 445.

Felicia Clark, 321.

Fern K. Peterson, 156.

Florence, 340, 383, 401.

Florence Ada, 429.

Florence de Launey, 367.

Florence May, 405, 423.

Florence May Kohls, 239.

Florence Porter, 441.

Florence Purdy, 201.

Flora Seal, 67.

Floy, 192.

Frances, 42, 78, 79, 81, 89, 98, 105, 106,
107, 109, 131, 206, 246, 265, 300, 379,
383, 388, 411.

Frances Ann, 418, 419.

Frances Anderson, 94, 95.

Frances A. Duprey, 451.

Frances Bell, 402, 419.

Frances Caroline Harris, 446, 447.
Frances E., 421.

Frances Elizabeth, 192, 193.

Frances F. B , 81.

Frances Newton, 325.

Frances Kirtley, 322, 323.

Frances M. Cofer, 255.

Frances Otey, 267, 269, 271, 272, 276, 277,
281, 282, 283, 284, 285.

Frances Ragsdale, 411, 418, 424, 425.
Frances Rice, 367, 369.

Frances Stephens, 196.

Frances Turpin Barton, 79, 81.

Frances Walker, 99.

Frances Walker Kirtley, 322, 324, 327,
337.

Francis Cannon, 395.

Francis Emmet, 367.

Francis Giddens, 394, 395.

Francis Harper, 450, 451.

Francis Marion, 449.

Frank, 107, 367, 423.

Frank Hilsom, 448.

BUFORD FAMILY IN AMERICA 467

BUFORD

Frank P., 325.

Franklin, 132.

Fred P., 434.

Freddie M., 447.

Frederick H., 382. .

Frederick Seymour, 345.

Gabriel, 384, 386, 404, 427, 428, 430.
Gaston Reedy, 385.

George, 145, 149, 264, 450.

George Albert, 201.

George C., 421, 423.

George Cowart, 434.

George Fair, 432.

George Gillespie, 384, 385, 386.

George Henry, 322, 337.

George Lee, 196.

George R., 447.

George Robertson, 149.

George T., 195, 196.

George W., 423.

George Washington, 59, 67, 198, 199, 201,
223, 227, 306, 342, 347, 348, 446.

George William, 231, 233.

Gilbert, 389, 397-
Gilbert Taylor, 395, 397.

Gilbert Wellington, 244.

Gillner, 433.

Giles, Yore, 342, 347, 348.

Golden A., 444.

Goodlee Warren, 435, 436, 437, 438.
Gordon Jamison, 452, 453.

Grace, 318, 439.

Grace Bowers, 318, 319, 320.

Grace Frierson, 429, 430.

Grace Gilbreath, 103.

Grace Harris, 277.

Granville Lee, 248.

Gray, 388.

Grazilda, 421.

Green, 57, 62, 63, 442.

Gre.enbury, 433.

Gerry R., 446.

Grundy, 264.

Guy A., 400.

Guy M., 202, 203.

Gwendolyn, 453.

Hall A., 94.

Hampton, 442.

Hampton Aubrey, 436, 437, 438.

Hannah Brown, 442.

Harriet, 147, 262, 265, 384, 385.

Harriet Ann, 265, 428.

Harriet Eliza, 84, 87.

Harriet Esther, 418, 419.

Harriet Hall, 441.

Harriet Hodge, 262.

Harriet Viola, 429, 430.

Harry, 276, 381.

Harry Blackburn, 277.

Harry Robert, 263.

Harvie, 448.

Harvey Louis Marion, 411.

Haywood, 345, 346.

Hazel, 241.

Helen, 286, 306., 308, 401, 402, 403.

Helen Darr, 244.

Helen L., 338, 339.

Helen M., 184, 185.

Helen R. Briggs, 370, 371.

Helen W., 60.

Henrietta, 145, 149, 428, 441.

Henrietta Ann, 427.

Henrietta Adair, 145, 146, 147.

Henrietta Clayton, 434, 435.

Henrietta Priscilla Lyles, 399.

Henry,

41,

48, i

62, 78, 99,

100,

145,

146,

173,

174,

175,

184,

199,

206,

207,

211,

218,

219,

229,

262,

263,

264,

265,

267,

271,

277,

284,

286,

323,

379,

381,

382,

411,

432,

433,

434,

435, 442, 443, 452.

Henry Bacon, 382.

Henry Bascome, 383.

Henry Clay, 84, 86, 94, 96, 248, 250, 251,
325, 441.

Henry Harry, 59, 61, 62.

Henry Lee, 213, 217.

Henry Marshall, 146, 156.

Henry McEwen, 444.

Henry Pierce, 184, 185, 186, 187, 190.
Henry Pointer, 403, 408.

Henry T., 441.

Henry W., 235, 239.

Henry Washington, 421.

Henry Wilson, 383.

Henry Harrison, 443.

Herbert D. C., 59, 61.

Hillary, 82.

Hiram Christopher, 149.

Hoges, 440.

Hopkins Otey, 262, 263.

Homer, 422.

Homer Franklin, 383.

Homer Milton, 434, 435.

Howard, 201.

Howard W., 235, 239.

Ida B., 348, 349.

Ida E., 382.

Ida Elizabeth, 444.

Ida Kate, 412.

Ida Lewis, 250.

Ida May, 192, 388.

Ida M. Kellogg, 434.

Ida Turner, 429.

Ida V., 383.

Ina, 99.

Inda Lavert, 449.

Indiana Wilson, 372.

Inez B., 348, 349.

Iowa Gulliver, 62.
lone Elzada, 89.

Ira May, 412.

Irene, 390.

Irene Mayes, 405, 408.

Irene Nelson, 248.

Isaac Davidson, 265.

Isaac Henry, 269, 271, 280, 283, 284, 285,
286.

Isabelle, 272, 277.

Isabelle McWhorter, 37 5.

Isabelle Taylor, 191, 192, 193, 194.

Israel Pickens; 440.

Jack, 422.

Jackson, 441.

Jameson Vaudavastine, 433, 435.

Jamison, 452.

Jane, 59, 63, 264, 423, 442.

Jane Colbert, 93, 94.

Jane Amelia, 418.

Jane, Anthony, 422, 423.

Jane Hill, 262.

Jane Kent Quirk, 173.

Jane Middleton, 262.

Jane Sherman, 262, 263, 264, 265.

Jane Smith Terry, 27 6, 277.

Janie Kent, 286.

Jay Wane, 202, 203.

James, 39, 40, 48, 57, 60, 61, 62, 78, 79,

82, 83, 89, 94, 99, 105, 107, 109, 139, 174,
205, 262, 324, 373, 379, 383, 387, 389,

392, 393, 395, 399, 400, 402, 403, 404,

409, 410, 427, 428, 432, 435, 443, 444,

445, 446, 447.

James A., 384, 447, 448.

James Abraham, 231, 242.

468 HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

INDEX

James Alfred, 103.

James Alexander, 443, 444.

James B., 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 415.

James Bacon, 59, 61.

James Barton, 381.

James Blackburn, 272, 277.

James C., 432, 433.

James Carter Monroe, 43, 44, 45.

James Clement, 347.

James Douglas, 444.

James Duke, 167.

James E., 381, 382, 423, 429.

James Edward, 446.

James Edwin, 192.

James F., 381.

James Fields, 42.

James Franklin, 81.

James H., 192. 373.

James Hamilton, 418, 419.

James Henry, 49, 53, 223, 225.

James Herbert, 60.

James Hervey, 269, 270, 271, 272, 280,
285

James K. Polk, 421.

James L., 109, 206, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262.
James Lawsonce, 271.

James Leslie, 385.

James M., 47, 69.

James McClure, 411, 418.

James Miller, 261.

James Monroe, 193, 307, 318, 321.

James Nelson, 250.

James Otho, 45, 62.

James Otey, 270, 272.

James P., 387.

James R., 379, 432.

James Randal, 284.

James Rebecca, 423, 430.

James Rice, 367, 368.

James Robert, 248, 252.

James S., 388.

James Sidney, 255.

James Sidney Smythe, 435, 442.

James Swigert, 320.

James T., 86.

James Thomas, 90, 93, 393, 404.

James William, 99.

James Walker, 264.

Jeanette Wilson, 436.

Jeannette Benedict, 345.

Jefferson, 132, 411, 412, 413, 415.
Jefferson LeRoy, 412, 421.

Jefferson Pugh, 418.

Jemimia, 411, 415, 421.

Jennie Boyd, 388.

Jennie Moorhead, 253.

Jesse Howard, 45.

Jesse T., 196.

Jessie Goff, 91.

Jessie M. Bone, 244.

Jessie Magdaline, 264.

Jessie W., 382.

Jeremiah, 184, 198, 199, 201, 202, 205.
Jerry, 199.

Jockil M., 109.

Joel Garnette, 102, 103.

Johanna Morris,

206.

John,

41, 47, 48,

49, 55, 56,

57,

58, 59

, 81,

84,

89, 97, 99,

106,

109,

133,

139,

169,

198,

262,

284,

286,

306,

307,

308,

311,

312,

321,

322,

324,

325,

326,

345,

346,

347,

374,

375,

379,

393,

433,

434,

435,

439,

446,

451.

John A., 264, 447.

John A. C., 86.

John A. M., 44.

John Albert, 250.

John Alexander, 207, 209.

John Archibald Cameron, 84.

John B., 184, 191, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199,
430, 432.

John Baker, 347.

John C , 348.

John David, 434.

John Davis, 433.

John Eldridge, 263.

John Elihu Harper, 436.

John F., 434.

John G., 435.

John H., 325, 326.

John Henry, 233, 243, 373.

John Hopkins, 264.

John Howard, 444.

John Lewis, 90.

John M., 44, 45, 155, 156.

John Moorman, 438.

John O’Connell, 346.

John Osmond Holliday, 411, 415.

John Price, 252.

John Quincy Adams, 269, 276, 277.

John R., 99.

John Ragsdale, 411, 412.

John Ravencraft, 374.

John Ridley, 412, 415, 417, 418, 421, 423.
John Robert, 381, 382, 383.

John Rockford, 372, 373.

John Simeon, 452.

John T., 149, 191, 192, 193, 345.

John Thomas, 36, 37, 39, 46, 70, 139, 174,
404, 407, 408.

John Thompson, 429.

John Tilford, 107.

John Timoleon, 434.

John Vernon, 53.

John W., 83, 84, 86, 384, 387, 388.

John Warren, 442.

John Watson, 318.

John Wesley, 446.

John Whaling, 286.

John Will Roy, 64, 65.

John William, 96, 263, 264, 265.

John Wilmot, 437.

John Yantis, 81.

Johnson, 311.

Joplin, 132.

Joshua, 445.

Josiah, 386, 404, 427.

Joseph, 450.

Joseph C., 433, 434.

Joseph D., 447, 448.

Joseph H., 434.

Joseph L., 196.

Joseph Leond, 262.

Joseph Luck, 258, 262.

Joseph P. C., 439.

Joseph Rebecca, 405.

Joseph Shropshire, 94.

Joseph Swepson, 373, 377.

Joseph T., 388.

Joseph Warren, 444.

Joseph William, 427, 428, 430, 444.
Joseph Wendell, 55.

Josephine B. Britton, 196.

Josephine Elda, 449;

Josephine Griffin, 442.

Josephine Victoria Wilson, 277.

Juanita Mae, 252.

Judith, 78, 79, 105, 106, 306, 337.

Judith Early, 106, 109, 133.

Julia, 205, 262, 264, 270.

Julia A., 447, 449.

Julia Ann, 173, 184, 185, 190, 286, 381.
Julia Ann Carder, 239, 240.

Julia Catherine, 271, 272.

Julia Grace, 436, 439.

Julia Lucas, 415.

Julia M., 196.

Julia May, 90.

Julia Milmet, 338.

Julia Pitzer, 286.

Julianna, 206, 229.

Julianna Elizabeth, 207, 219.

Juliette Jewell, 206.

Julius Blackburn, 267, 280, 281, 282.
Julius Gordon, 282, 284, 286.

Julius LeRoy, 440.

BUFORD FAMILY IN

AMERICA

469

BUFORD

Kate, 451.

Kate Augusta Cooley, 35, 239.

Kate 'B., 192, 382.

Kate Caroline, 263.

Kate Eleanor, 213, 214.

Kate L., 233.

Kate Lee, 403.

Kate Lena, 447.

Kate Sikes, 434.

Kate Thomas, 372.

Kate Williams, 90.

Kate Wortham, 372.

Katherine Barton, 381.

Katherine Burr, 271.

Katherine Currier, 428.

Katherine Fandal, 444.

Katherine Hanson, 269, 270, 272.
Katherine Julia, 405.

Kenneth McDowell, 449.

Kenzia A., 389, 393.

Kittie T., 89.

Kitty, 94.

Kitty Livingston, 96.

Kizia, 433, 434.

L. P., 83.

Lamar, 264.

Lansford, 435.

Larkin Fletcher, 382.

Larkin W., 381, 382, 383.

Laura Baptist, 403.

Laura Clark, 67.

Laura Elsie, 239, 240.

Laura Harrell, 387.

Laura Louella, 450.

Laura Mae, 65.

Laura Vallery, 55.

Lawrence, 397.

Lawrence Lee, 91.

Lawrence Allie, 64, 65.

Lawrence Newton, 440.

Lawson, 83.

Lawson H., 83.

Lawson S., 84.

Lazinska, 387, 397.

Lazinska May, 395
Lazinska Elliston, 405.

Leander Jefferson, 415.

Leander LeRoy, 418.

Leatha May, 64, 65.

Lee Ann Parker, 448.

LeGrand Griffin, 340.

Lela Belle, 383.

Lela May, 382.

Lelia Wilmer, 263.

Lelia Fitzwilliam, 367.

Lemuel, 427.

Lemuel Oliver, 447.

Lena, 388.

Lena May, 196, 390, 392.

Lena L., 233, 235.

Lenora, 441.

Leonard Orville, 45.

Leonidas, 132.

LeRoy, 411, 413, 419, 421, 424, 425.
LeRoy Eaves, 418.

Leslie Winder, 385.

Leslie Woodroe, 429.

Lester, 448.

Lester Ray, 65.

Lessie Deen, 45, 55.

Letitia, 205, 411, 412, 421, 430.
Letitia L., 448.

Letitia S., 184, 186.

Letitia Susan Stover, 59, 60, 61.
Letitia Stull Hardin, 89, 90, 91, 93.
Letitia Terry Campbell, 281.

Lettie, 60.

Lewis Cass, 390.

Lida Talisferro, 94.

Lillian, 385, 386, 430.

Lillian A., 255.

Lillian A. Thornbrugh, 408.

Lillian May Morris, 408.

Lillian S., 330, 340.

Lillie, 62, 423.

Lillie Ex, 67.

Lillie Lamper, 423.

Lina Smith, 53.

Linius, 440.

Linnie Love, 382.

Livinia Olivia, 436.

Lizzie, 381.

Lizzie Juett McNeil, 413.

Lola V. Sharp, 97.

London, 196.

Lottie, 59, 61.

Lottie B., 233, 235.

Lottie Forrester, 435.

Lottie Lee, 345.

Loulie May, 438, 439.

Louis, 348, 349.

Louis A., 447.

Louis Churchill, 370.

Louis Jackson, 102, 103.

Louis Marshall, 145, 147, 149. *

Louisa, 443, 444, 445.

Louisa J., 443.

Louise, 385, 399.

Louise Barry, 440.

Louise Watthall, 371.

Louise Yondell, 405.

Louisiana, 450.

Lucile Turner, 429.

Lucinda, 82, 390, 391.

Lucinda G., 389, 392.

Lucinda Mildred, 250, 251.

Lucy, 44, 45. 48, 55, 145, 206, 207, 223,
242, 390, 392, 432, 433.

Lucy A. Rice, 367, 368, 369, 370.

Lucy Ann, 231, 242.

Lucy Ann Duke, 145, 146, 147, 149.

Lucy Arbella, 239, -240.

Lucy Blamire, 277.

Lucy E. Hanson
Lucy Kent, 284.

Lucy Montague, 271.

Lucy May, 428, 430.

Lucy Temple, 253, 261.

Lue Palmer, 367.

Lula, 97.

Lula Ann, 263..

Luella, 207.

Lunsford, 442.

Luterpsey M., 261.

Luther, 107, 109.

Luther L., 243.

Luther Vandiver, 233, 245.

Lydia Black, 418, 419.

Lydia Louise, 418, 419.

Lydia Virginia, '263.

Lynn Gordon, 338.

Lysander Hord, 97. - .

M. P., 399.

Mabel, 390.

Mabel Hillyer Stokers, 272.

Mabel Melvin, 239, 240.

Mabel Wheeler, 203.

Mack, 262, 265.

Madison, 443.

Madora Stephenson, 388.

Maggie Baker, 156.

Maggie Estelle, 263.

Maggie M., 96.

Maggie May, 263.

Maldie Cowan, 418.

Malie Gertrude, 244.

Malinda, 184, 205.

Malinda Elizabeth Woody, 263.

Mamie Elmina, 45.

Mamie Ethel, 400.

Manson M., 432.

Manville T., 338, 339.

470

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

INDEX

Marcellus, 382
Marceus A., 427, 430.

Marcus Bainbridge, 149, 155, 157, 159.
Margaret, 48, 95, 97, 345, 347, 348, 383,
393, 408, 445.

Margaret Ann, 346.

Margaret Ann Smith, 263.

Margaret Carpenter. 312.

Margaret Davis, 347.

Margaret E. Hays, 187, 189.

Margaret Elizabeth Robertson, 150, 151,
153, 155, 156, 157, 159.

Margaret Elizabeth, 94, 150, 440.
Margaret Frances, 430.

Margaret Garnett, 196.

Margaret Hicks, 243, 264.

Margaret John, 90, 93.

Margaret Kirtley, 306, 322, 324, 337, 342,
343, 344, 347, 348.

Margaret Lackey, 65.

Margaret Letitia, 269, 283.

Margaret McNeil Epps, 252.

Margaret McRea, 412.

Margaret Strickland, 440.

Margaret * Susan, 367, 368.

Margaret Virginia Brooks, 45.
Marguerito, 441.

Maria, 433. •

Mariam, 385, 386.

Marie, 54, 55.

Marie Louis, 37 0.

Marie Louise Bacon, 59, 61, 62.

Marie Millerman, 423.

Marie Winfree, 347, 348.

Marietta Margaret, 429.

Marion, 101, 103.

Marion L., 202, 203.

Marion Munroe, 325.

Marjory, 241.

Marjorie Loren, 243.

Mark, 391, 392.

Mark Hardin, 89, 90.

Mark S., 452, 453.

Marshall, 325.

Marshall N„ 325, 326.

Martha, 99, 145, 147, 264, 322, 348, 447.
Martha A., 192, 193, 373.

Martha A. Hull, 440.

Martha Ann, 223, 225.

Martha Berry, 96.

Martha Davis, 348.

Martha E. Gordon, 338.

Martha Eliza, 101, 103.

Martha Elizabeth, 159.

Martha F., 194, 3-81.

Martha Hall, 351.

Martha Hill Logwood, 82, 83.

Martha J., 48, 49.

Martha Jane, 84, 155, 264.

Martha Jane Moorman, 438.

Martha Jones, 156.

Martha K., 196.

Martha M., 192, 381, 383, 389, 392.
Martha May, 225.

Martha Malinda, 429.

Martha McDowell, 133, 143, 145, 149, 153,
167.

Martha McDowell Duke, 169.

Martha Nichols, 196.

Martha P. Manson, 372, 373, 374.

Martha Ruse, 196.

Martha Tucker, 381.

Martin Rivers, 399.

Marvel Morris, 253, 254.

Marvin, 243.

Marvin Edward, 252.

Mary, 44, 47, 48, 49, 56, 97, 99, 107, 132,

133, 167, 196, 258, 261, 293, 306, 318,

322, 343, 358, 379, 383, 386, 388, 392,

399, 412, 415, 423, 428, 432, 433, 435,

442, 443, 445, 447, 448.

Mary A., 195.

Mary Alice, 192, 194.

Mary Amanda Stewart, 367.

Mary Amelia, 441.

Mary Ann, 191, 194, 199, 202, 433, 446.
Mary Ann Catherine, 372.

Mary Ann Elizabeth Gordon, 39$, 394,
395

. Mary Ann Field, 345.

Mary Ann Hardin Smith, 440.

Mary Ann Jones, 248, 250, 251, 252, 253.
Mary Ann Price, 311.

Mary Ann Rebecca White, 412, 413.

Mary Ann Tucker, 446.

Mary B., 194, 196.

Mary Barr, 83, 84.

Mary Berry, 79.

Mary Bondeaux, 445.

Mary Bowling Rivers, 397, 398, 399.
Mary Brazilla Johnson, 45.

Mary C., 187, 189, 345.

Mary C. Carpenter, 264.

Mary C. Musgrove, 398.

Mary Cameron Ross, 372.

Mary Catherine, 250, 252.

Mary Charlotte, 267, 403.

Mary Charlotte Stephenson, 436.

Mary Depp, 344, 34o, 346.

Mary Dorothy, 99.

Mary Duke, 150, 159.

Mary E., 84, 107, 192, 373.

Mary E. Anderson, 452.

Mary E. Jubb, 96.

Mary E. Musgrove, 445.

Mary E. Owen, 447.

Mary E. Tomlinson, 441.

Mary Effie Wilkinson, 244.

Mary Edmondson, 198.

Marv Eliza Laslev, 252.

Mary Elizabeth, 223, 224, 284, 346, 367,
368, 385, 386, 387, 393, 394, 432.

Mary Elizabeth Burgess, 391.

Mary Elizabeth McMurry, 244.

Mary Elizabeth Robertson, 85, 86, 87.
Mary Ella, 383, 415.

Mary Emma, 404.

Mary Estelle, 447, 448.

Mary Ethel, 201, 345.

Mary Etta, 248, 253.

Mary Eunice, 440.

Mary Florence, 263.

Mary Florence Brown, 401.

Mary Frances, 42, 109, 264, 325, 326, 401,
421.

Mary Giddens, 393, 402.

Mary Gillespie, 385.

Mary Gladys, 403.

Mary Grace, 97, 437.

Mary Green, 433, 434, 435.

Mary H., 199, 201, 202.

Mary H. Nifong, 421, 422, 423.

Mary Harty, 205.

Mary H

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